Note 561 — Chapter VI · Attempts to Control Textbooks

Burke, E. J., Political Economy designed for use in Catholic Colleges, High Schools, and Academies (New York, 1913), p. 1. According to Bullock’s Elements of Economics, one textbook used in the public schools, “Economics is the science which deals with the efforts of mankind to secure the material commodities and personal services which are needed to support life and to make a civilized existence possible.” Bullock, Charles J., Elements of Economics (Boston, 1913), p. 4.