Book excerpt: Excerpt from Steps in the Development of American Democracy The poignant earnestness Which pervades the lectures marks them as the father's me morial to his son Who, like many other American college lads, had recently fallen on the field of battle in France that the ideals of democracy might live and prevail. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.