《The American Mind》求取 ⇩

Ⅰ．THE COLONIAL PERIOD，1607-17611

INTRODUCTION TO PART Ⅰ3

Colonial Beginnings in Virginia and New England5

JOHN SMITH (1580-1631)5

From A Description of New England6

A Call for American Colonists6

From The Generall Historie of Virginia9

Pocahontas9

CONDITIONS AT JAMESTOWN，1607-160910

WILLIAM BRADFORD (c．1590-1657)11

From Of Plimoth Plantation12

Showing ye Reasons and Causes of Their Remoovall12

The Compact and Settlement13

THOMAS MORTON (c．1590-1646)15

From The New English Canaan15

Of the Revells of New Canaan15

Of a Great Monster16

How the 9．Worthies18

JOHN WINTHROP (1588-1649)19

From The Journal20

Price Fixing20

A Scarlet Letter21

Problems of Government21

Murder of Oldham22

A Cruel Schoolmaster23

On Liberty24

Seventeenth-Century New England Puritanism25

JOHN COTTON (1585-1652)25

From God＇s Promise to His Plantation26

Counsel to the Colonists26

From The Keyes of the Kingdom of Heaven27

Of the Fruits of Congregational Discipline27

EDWARD JOHNSON (1598-1672)27

From The Wonder-Working Providence28

Founding of Harvard College28

NATHANIEL WARD (1578-1652)29

From The Simple Cobler of Aggawamm30

Against Toleration30

Man＇s Clear Duty32

ROGER WILLIAMS (c．1604-1683)32

From The Blovdy Tenent33

Theses Proved33

Separation of Church and State34

THOMAS SHEPARD (1605-1649)35

From The Sincere Convert36

The Everlasting Fire36

Nine Easy Ways to Hell37

ANNE BRADSTREET (c．1612-1672)38

The Prologue38

Meditation39

To My Dear and Loving Husband40

MICHAEL WIGGLESWORTH (1631-1705)40

From The Day of Doom40

God＇s Judgment Day40

The Easiest Room in Hell41

JOHN DAVENPORT (1597-1670)43

From A Discourse about Civil Government43

A Defense of Theocracy43

INCREASE MATHER (1639-1723)45

From An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences46

A Bewitched House46

The Probation by Cold Water47

COTTON MATHER (1663-1728)49

From The Wonders of the Invisible World51

Devils in New England51

From Magnalia Christi Americana52

The Life of Mr．Thomas Hooker52

From A Christian at His Calling53

From Bonifacius，or Essays to Do Good54

The Duties of Schoolmasters54

From Manuductio ad Ministerium56

First Philosophy56

Rational Mystery of Godliness56

Ways to Do Good57

On College Love Affairs58

On Poetry58

On Literary Style58

On Music58

Original Sermons59

Meeting Popular Ingratitude59

SAMUEL SEWALL (1652-1730)59

From Diary60

An Act of Friendship60

A Student＇s Punishment60

A Dream60

Trouble with Indians61

A Lover Swoons61

Great Boston Fire61

Religious Problems62

Social Problems62

Prayer，Fears，and Faith62

A Sense of Guilt63

Negro Slavery63

From The Selling of Joseph64

THE NEW-ENGLAND PRIMER (c．1690)64

The Alphabet65

The Dutiful Child＇s Promises65

Verses66

Good Children Must66

Learn These Four Lines66

Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep66

The Colonial Frontier66

MARY ROWLANDSON (c．1635-1678)66

From Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration67

The Beginning of the Captivity67

The First Remove68

The Second Remove69

The Third Remove69

The Eighth Remove71

The Eleventh Remove71

The Twelfth Remove71

WILLIAM BYRD (1674-1744)72

From The History of the Dividing Line73

Settlers＇ Unwise Indian Policy73

Contented Poverty74

From A Journey to the Land of Eden75

Primitive Dentistry75

From A Progress to the Mines75

Visit to Governor Spotswood75

ALEXANDER SPOTSWOOD (1676－1740)77

Education of Indians77

JAMES OGLETHORPE (1696-1785)78

From A Brief Account of the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia78

The Designs of the Trustees78

Religious Currents of the Eighteenth Century81

JONATHAN EDWARDS (1703-1758)81

The Flying Spider82

Sarah Pierrepont84

Personal Narrative85

Nature89

Notes on Natural Science89

Of the Prejudices of the Imagination89

Of Being90

From The Christian Pilgrim92

From Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God93

From The Freedom of the Will95

Conclusion：God the Ruler of All Things95

JOHN WOOLMAN (1720－1772)96

From Journal96

Early Days96

Thoughts at Sea99

Economic Thought100

THOMAS HUTCHINSON (1711-1780)100

From The History of Massachusetts-Bay101

Trade in Colonial America101

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)104

From Autobiography106

Reasons for Writing106

A Boston Childhood107

Bookish Inclination108

The New-England Courant111

Deistic Principles112

Scheme for Arriving at Moral Perfection113

Poor Richard＇s Almanack117

Electrical Experiments118

From Articles of Belief and Acts of Religion119

First Principles119

Advice to a Young Tradesman120

The Way to Wealth121

The Sale of the Hessians125

Letters：126

To John Alleyne：On Early Marriage126

To William Strahan：The Effect of War127

To Madam Brillon：The Ephemera127

To Madam Brillon：The Whistle128

To Samuel Mather：Cotton Mather129

To Ezra Stiles：Deistic Beliefs129

Ⅱ．THE REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD．1761-1783131

INTRODUCTION TO PART Ⅱ133

JAMES OTIS (1725-1783)135

Opposition to Writs of Assistance135

SAMUEL ADAMS (1722-1803)137

Resolutions，October 29，1765138

JOHN DICKINSON (1732-1808)139

From Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania140

Ⅰ．Thoughts on Some Late Transactions140

Ⅲ．Non-violent Resistance142

Liberty Song144

PATRICK HENRY (1736-1709)145

Speech in the Virginia Convention of Delegates，March 23，1775145

VIRGINIA BILL OF RIGHTS，June 12，1776147

THOMAS PAINE (1737-1809)148

From Common Sense149

Ⅲ．Thoughts on the Present State of American Affairs149

From The American Crisis154

The Times That Try Men＇s Souls154

From The Age of Reason156

The Faith of a Deist156

REVOLUTIONARY SONGS AND BALLADS161

Virginia Banishing Tea162

The American Hero，by Nathaniel Niles162

The Yankee＇s Return from Camp163

The Ballad of Nathan Hale164

Independence164

The Battle of the Kegs，by Francis Hopkinson165

A Birthday Song，by Jonathan Odell166

Lords of the Main，by Joseph Stansbury166

JOHN TRUMBULL (1750-1831)167

From Essay on the Use and Advantages of the Fine Arts167

Future Glory of America167

From The Progress of Dulness169

Tom Brainless at College169

The Quackeries of Learning169

From M＇Fingal170

The Tarring of M＇Fingal170

HECTOR ST．JOHN DE CREVECOEUR (1735-1813)172

From Letters from an American Farmer173

Ⅲ．What is an American?173

From Sketches of Eighteenth Century America179

A Man of Sorrows179

GEORGE WASHINGTON (1732－1799)184

Letter to Colonel Nicola：Refusing a Crown185

Address to the Officers，March 15，1783185

Orders Announcing the Cessation of Hostilities188

TRIBUTES TO WASHINGTON189

From The Life of George Washington＆by M．L．Weems190

Columbia＇s First and Greatest Son190

Truth and the Cherry Tree190

From Under the Old Elm＆by J．R．Lowell191

At the Tomb of Washington＆by Clinton Scollard192

Inscription at Mount Vernon192

The Twenty-second of February＆by W．C．Bryant192

Ode for Washington＇s Birthday＆by O．W．Holmes193

The Character of George Washington＆by W．L．Cross193

JOHN ADAMS (1735-1826)197

From A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America198

Who Are the People?198

Protecting the People200

Characteristics of Democracy201

Mixed Government Best201

Letters：201

To Mrs．Adams：Washington＇s Appointment201

To Mrs．Adams：The Act of Separation202

To Hezekiah Niles：The Real American Revolution203

Ⅲ．THE EARLY NATIONAL PERIOD，1783-1829205

INTRODUCTION TO PART Ⅲ207

Nationalism and Democracy209

PHILIP FRENEAU (1752-1832)209

A Political Litany209

On the Memorable Victory of Paul Jones210

To the Memory of the Brave Americans211

The Vanity of Existence212

Literary Importation212

The Wild Honeysuckle213

The Indian Burying Ground213

Ode：＂God Save the Rights of Man!＂213

On a Honey Bee214

On the Anniversary of the Storming of the Bastille214

The Republican Genius of Europe215

To a Caty-Did215

To My Book216

On the Religion of Nature216

TIMOTHY DWIGHT (1752-1817)217

Columbia218

From Greenfield Hill218

The Flourishing Village218

The Duty of Americans，at the Present Crisis219

From Travels in New-England and New-York225

The Foresters or Pioneers225

NOAH WEBSTER (1758-1843)227

From A Grammatical Institute of the English Language，Part Ⅰ228

An American System of Education228

From Dissertations on the English Language230

A National Language230

JOEL BARLOW (1754-1812)232

From The Vision of Columbus233

American Education and Religion233

From The Hasty Pudding234

A Savory Dish234

From Advice to the Priviledge Orders235

Introduction235

Equality in the United States239

THOMAS JEFFERSON (1743-1826)241

From The Declaration of Independence242

From Notes on the State of Virginia242

Religious Toleration242

Slavery243

First Inaugural Address244

Letters：246

To Francis Hopkinson：Independent Position246

To Joseph Priestley：＂We are Acting for All Mankind＂246

To John Adams：On Natural Aristocracy247

To Dr．Walter Jones：Portrait of Washington249

JOHN CARROLL (1735-1815)250

Letter to Father Thorpe：A National Catholic Church251

HUGH HENRY BRACKENRIDGE (1748-1816)252

From Modern Chivalry253

Captain Farrago253

On Democracy253

The Society of Philosophers254

Visit to the Hall of Congress256

Visit to a University257

JOHN MARSHALL (1755-1835)259

The Nature of the Constitution and the Duty of the Supreme Court259

JAMES KENT (1763-1847)260

Against Universal Suffrage261

JAMES FENIMORE COOPER (1789-1851)262

From The Pioneers264

Ch．ⅩⅫ．Nature＇s Nobleman264

Ch．ⅩⅩⅫ．The Encroachment of Civilization266

From The Last of the Mohicans268

Ch．ⅩⅩⅫ．Death of Magua268

From Gleanings in Europe．England275

England and America275

From The American Democrat280

On Distinctive American Principles280

An Aristocrat and a Democrat283

From Satanstoe284

Ch．Ⅱ．New England Colleges284

Frontier Thought288

ALEXANDER ROSS (1783-1856)288

From Adventures of the First Settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River289

Organization of the Pacific Fur Company289

TIMOTHY FLINT (1780-1840)292

From Recollections of the Last Ten Years292

Religion on the Frontier292

Defense of the Backwoodsman294

PETER CARTWRIGHT (1785-1872)296

From The Backwoods Preacher296

Scioto Circuit296

THOMAS HULME300

From Journal300

Reasons for Coming to America300

ELIAS BOUDINOT (c．1803-1839)303

An Address to the Whites304

Sequoyah，by Albert Gallatin309

Economic Thought310

ALEXANDER HAMILTON (1757-1804)310

From Report on Manufactures311

Value of Manufacturing311

Iron316

Fossil Coal318

Printed Books318

MERIWETHER LEWIS (1774-1809)319

The Vision of an Overland Trade across the Continent319

The First American Men of Letters320

CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN (1771-1810)320

Reflections on Moralists and Moral Writing321

From Wieland322

Chs．ⅩⅥ-ⅩⅦ．Discovery of the Murdered Family322

WASHINGTON IRVING (1783-1859)328

From A History of New York，Book Ⅲ329

Ch．Ⅰ．Of the Renowned Wouter Van Twiller329

Ch．Ⅱ．Containing Some Account of The Grand Council332

Ch．Ⅲ．How the Town of New Amsterdam Arose out of Mud336

Ch．Ⅳ．Containing Further Particulars of the Golden Age338

From The Sketch Book340

The Author＇s Account of Himself340

Rip Van Winkle342

Westminster Abbey350

From The Alhambra355

Palace of the Alhambra355

From A Tour on the Prairies360

Ch．Ⅴ．Frontier Scenes360

Ch．Ⅵ．Trail of the Osage Hunters361

Ch．Ⅶ．Osage Village362

Ch．Ⅷ．The Honey Camp365

Ch．Ⅸ．A Bee-Hunt366

JAMES GATES PERCIVAL (1795-1856)367

From Prometheus368

To Seneca Lake369

The Coral Grove370

New-England370

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT (1794-1878)371

Thanatopsis372

The Yellow Violet372

Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood373

To a Waterfowl373

I Cannot Forget with What Fervid Devotion374

O Fairest of the Rural Maids374

Monument Mountain374

A Forest Hymn376

The Death of the Flowers377

The past378

Hymn of the City379

To the Fringed Gentian379

The Prairies379

The Battle-Field381

The Antiquity of Freedom381

＂O Mother of a Mighty Race＂382

The Poet383

(The Twenty-second of February，192) The Right of Workmen to Strike383

Ⅳ．A MID-NINETEENTH-CENTURY CIVILIZATION，1829-1865385

INTRODUCTION TO PART Ⅳ387

Economic，Social，and Political Thought389

AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION (1830-1850)389

Children in Philadelphia Factories390

The Factory System390

Labor＇s view of Immigration391

Obtaining Female Operatives392

The First Ten-Hour Law392

Rejoicing392

Misgiving，by Horace Greeley393

A Factory Idyl＆by David Crockett394

UTOPIAN SOCIAL EXPERIMENTS (1825-1845)395

From Constitution of the New-Harmony Community of Equality－Preamble397

Association398

The Constitution of the Brook Farm Association400

From Hints Toward Reform＆by Horace Greeley402

Communistic Philosophies402

HENRY CHARLES CAREY (1793-1879)405

From The Harmony of Interests405

The Fallacies of Classical Economics405

THEODORE PARKER (1810-1860)406

The Perishing Classes in Boston407

The Problem407

Vagrant Boys and Girls408

The Adult Poor410

The Intemperate Poor412

Solutions413

GEORGE FITZHUGH (1806-1881)416

From Sociology for the South Dedication416

A Southern Defense of Slavery and a Criticism of Industrialism416

RICHARD HENRY DANA，JR．(1815-1881)419

From Two Years Before the Mast419

Ch．ⅩⅤ．A Flogging419

DOROTHEA LYNDE DIX (1802-1887)425

FromMemorial to the Legislature of Massachusetts426

Neglect of the Insane426

HORACE MANN (1796-1859)429

From On District School Libraries429

New Vistas429

From Report for 1841430

Pecuniary Value of Education430

From Report for 1845431

The Arms of Education431

ELIHU BURRITT (1810-1879)432

From Thoughts and Things at Home and Abroad432

Inhumanity of War432

The Pioneers of peace433

The Patriotism of Passive Resistance435

GEORGE SIDNEY CAMP436

Democracy436

FRANCIS LIEBER (1800-1872)440

From On Civil Liberty and Self-Government441

American Liberty441

MATTHEW CALBRAITH PERRY (1794-1858)444

From Narrative of the Expedition to Japan445

Reception，July 14，1853445

Presentation of Credentials447

Exchange of Gifts，March 24，1854448

American Hospitality450

Conclusion452

Frontier Thought452

DAVID CROCKETT (1786-1836)452

From Col．Crockett＇s Exploits and Adventures in Texas453

Frontier Politics453

A Great Swamp Fight455

WESTERN IMMIGRATION PROPAGANDA456

From Illinois in 1837456

Professional Opportunities in the West456

JOHN WESLEY WILBARGER458

From Indian Depredations in Texas459

The Frontiersman＇s Attitude toward the Indian459

A Comanche Princess459

Massacre of the Keenon and Paschal Families461

JOHN CHARLES FREMONT (1813-1890)463

From Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains464

Sutter of California464

Indian Attacks466

JOHANN AUGUSTUS SUTTER (1803-1880)470

From The Diary470

A Mill Site470

The First Gold471

The Gold Rush472

THOMAS HART BENTON (1782-1858)473

From Speech on the Oregon Question475

The Oregon Country475

The Columbia River477

Superiority of the White Race478

From Speech in the Senate，February 7，1849480

A Transcontinental Road480

LAFAYETTE HOUGHTON BUNNELL (1824-1903)481

From Discovery of the Yosemite482

Ch．Ⅲ．Approaching the Valley482

Ch．Ⅳ．Naming the Valley486

LEWIS H．GARRARD (1829-1887)488

From Wah-to＇-Yah，and the Taos Trail489

Ch．ⅩⅥ．Los Pueblos489

Ch．ⅩⅦ．El Muerte491

BRIGHAM YOUNG (1801-1877)495

From Discourses of Brigham Young496

The Settlement in the West496

Political Government498

Spiritual and Ethical Exploration500

ADONIRAM JUDSON (1788-1850)500

From The Life and Character of Adoniram Judson＆by William Hague501

MISSIONARY ACTIVITY IN THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY505

For Country and for God505

AN INDIAN PLEA FOR CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE507

The Flathead Indians508

WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING (1780-1842)510

Unitarian Christianity511

The Moral Argument against Calvinism512

AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT (1799-1888)516

From Orphic Sayings517

Emerson519

Thoreau519

Wendell Phillips519

Garrison519

RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-1882)520

Good-Bye522

Thought522

The Rhodora522

The Apology523

Concord Hymn523

Uriel523

Each and All524

The Humble-Bee524

The Problem525

The Sphinx526

The Snow-Storm527

Grace527

Politics528

Fable528

Ode Inscribed to W．H．Channing528

Guy529

Alphonso of Castile530

Days531

The Bohemian Hymn531

Braham531

Two Rivers531

Waldeinsamkeit531

Terminus532

Nature532

The American Scholar550

Self-Reliance559

Brook Farm570

HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817-1862)573

The Inward Morning574

Nature575

Independence575

Mission575

Letter to Harrison Blake：Walt Whitman576

From A Week on the concord and Merrimack Rivers376

Music and Universal Laws576

Civil Disobedience579

Necessity of Government579

On Voting582

Action from Principle583

On Imprisonment584

On Paying Taxes587

From Walden590

Where I Lived，and What I lived for590

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE (1804-1864)579

Sights from a Steeple598

The Gray Champion601

Wakefield605

The Maypole of Merry Mount609

The birthmark614

Ethan Brand622

HERMAN MELVILLE (1819-1891)630

From Moby Dick631

Ch．CⅩⅩⅫ．The Symphony631

Chs．CⅩⅩⅩⅢ-CⅩⅩⅩⅤ．The Chase633

From Mardi and a Voyage Thither646

Ch．LⅦ．Popular Sovereignty in America646

From Pierre；or，the Ambiguities650

Enceladus650

Some Romantic Writers653

EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809-1849)653

A Dream within a Dream654

Romance655

Sonnet－to Science655

To －655

To Helen655

Israfel656

The City in the Sea656

The Sleeper657

Lenore657

To One in Paradise658

The Raven658

Ulalume660

The Bells661

To My Mother663

Annabel Lee663

Eldorado663

Ligeia664

The Fall of the House of Usher671

The Masque of the Red Death680

The Purloined Letter683

The Poetic Principle691

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807-1882)695

A Pslam of Life606

Hymn to the Night606

The Wreek of the Hesperus607

The Village Blacksmith608

Excelsior608

The Rainy Day609

The Arsenal at Springfield609

Nuremberg700

The Day is Done701

The Bridge701

The Arrow and the Song702

From The Building of the Ship702

My Lost Youth703

The Children＇s Hour704

Paul Revere＇s Ride704

Christmas Bells705

Divina commedia706

A Shadow707

Nature707

The Cross of Snow707

From Kavanagh707

A National Literature707

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES (1809-1894)709

Old Ironsides710

The Last Leaf710

My Aunt711

Non-Resistance711

The Chambered Nautilus712

The Deacon＇s Masterpiece712

The Deacon＇s Masterpiece712

The Boys713

A Hymn of Trust714

Never or Now714

From The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table715

On Conversation715

Adjectives716

Slang716

Danies717

Aristocracy717

American Literary Taste718

From Elsie Venner718

Ch．Ⅰ．The Brahmin Caste of New England718

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL (1819-1891)720

I Would Not Have This Perfect Love of Ours722

For This True Nobleness722

An Incident in a Railroad Car722

Sonnet：Wendell Phillips723

Rhoecus723

Stanzas on Freedom725

The Present Crisis：1844725

Hebe727

Bibliolatres727

After the Burial728

From The Biglow Papers，First Series729

No．I．A Letter from Mr．Ezekiel Biglow729

From The Biglow Papers，Second Series731

The Courtin＇731

From A Fable for Critics733

Emerson733

Bryant734

Cooper734

Poe735

Lowell735

Thoreau735

Nationalism and Sectionalism740

JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER (1807-1892)740

To William Lloyd Garrison741

Massachusetts to Virginia741

Proem743

Dedication to Songs of Labor744

The Shoemakers744

Ichabod745

First-Day thoughts746

Maud Muller746

The Barefoot Boy748

Skipper Ireson＇s Ride749

Telling the Bees750

The Kansas Emigrants751

Barbara Frietchie751

Laus Deo!752

The Eternal Goodness753

Snow-Bound754

ANDREW JACKSON (1767-1845)762

Proclamation to the People of South Carolina762

JOHN CALDWELL CALHOUN (1782-1850)765

From Speech on the Slavery Question，March 4，1850766

DANIEL WEBSTER (1782-1852)769

From Speech on the Constitution and the Union，March 7，1850770

STEPHEN COLLINS FOSTER (1826-1864)774

Nelly Was a Lady775

Old Folks at Home775

My Old Kentucky Home，Good-Night!775

Old Black Joe776

WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS (1806-1870)776

From Southward Ho!777

Ch．Ⅹ．Southern Economy777

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE (1812-1896)781

From Uncle Tom＇s Cabin781

Ch．ⅩⅩⅩ．The Slave Warehouse781

JOHN BROWN (1800-1859)785

Final Speech785

JEFFERSON DAVIS (1808-1889)786

Inaugural Address787

ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1809-1865)789

Autobiography789

From speech at Cooper Union，February 27，1860790

Farewell Speech to His Friends in Springfield795

Letter to Horace Greeley，august 22，1862795

The Gettysburg Address796

Second Inaugural Address796

TRIBUTES TO LINCOLN797

From Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration＆by J．R．Lowell798

The Master＆by Edwin Arlington Robinson798

Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight＆by Vachel Lindsay799

A Farmer Remembers Lincol＆by Witter Bynner800

Lincoln at Thirty-Seven＆by Carl Sandburg800

Lincoln，the Ideal Democratic Man＆by Herbert Croly803

ROBERT EDWARD LEE (1807-1870)804

To General Winfield Scott：Resignation from the United States Army805

To Mrs．Lee：Death of Their Daughter805

To Mrs．Lee：Cruelty of War805

To His Soldiers：A Leader＇s Gratitude806

TRIBUTES TO LEE806

Robet E．Lee＆by Julia Ward Howe806

Lee on the Third Day at Chancellorsville＆by Col．Charles Marshall807

The Pattern of a Life＆by D．S．Freeman807

SONGS AND BALLADS OF THE WAR813

Dixie＆by Albert Pike815

Glory Hallelujah!or John Brown＇s Body＆by Charles Sprague Hall815

Battle-Hymn of the Republic＆by Julia Ward Howe815

Maryland!My Maryland!＆by James Ryder Randall816

Three Hundred Thousand More＆by John Sloan Gibbons817

Tenting on the Old Camp Ground＆by Walter Kittredge817

HENRY TIMROD (1829-1867)818

Ethnogenesis818

Charleston819

The Cotton Boll820

Ode Sung at the Occasion of Decorating the Graves of the Confederate Dead822

PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE (1830-1886)822

Aspects of the Pines822

South Carolina to the State sof the North823

ALEXANDER HAMILTON STEPHENS (1812-1883)824

From A constitutional View of the Late War between the States824

States＇ Rights824

Slavery Did Not Cause Secession828

Ⅴ．TRANSITION TO THE MACHINE AGE．1865-1919829

INTRODUCTION TO PART Ⅴ831

Walt Whitman (1819-1892)833

From Leaves of Grass834

One＇s-Self I Sing834

As I Ponder＇d in Silence834

To the States835

Poets to Come835

For You O Democracy835

To a Pupil835

Song of Myself835

Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking862

A Noiseless Patient spider865

Pioneers!O Pioneers865

Cavalry Crossing a Ford867

Come up from the fields Father867

As Toilsome I wander＇d Virginia＇s Woods868

O Captain!My Captain!868

When Lilacs Last int he Dooryard Bloom＇d869

On the Beach at Night873

Song of the Redwood-Tree873

Spirit That form＇d This Scene875

From Democratic Vistas875

Nationality and Literature875

American Character878

Frontier Thought879

FOLK SONGS AND BALLADS879

The Cowboy＇s Dream880

Whoopee Ti Yi Yo，Git Along Little Dogies881

O Bury Me Not On the Lone Prairie881

A Plantation serenade882

All God＇s Chilun Got Wings882

Satan＇s A Liah．883

De Blues Ain＇ Nothin＇883

Water-Boy883

John Henry884

Casey Jones884

Jesse James885

The Jam on Gerry＇s Rock885

When the Curtains of Night Are Pinned Back886

BRET HARTE (1836-1902)886

The Outcasts of Poker Flat887

JOAQUIN MILLER (1839-1913)892

Kit Carson＇s Ride893

Frōm The Last Taschastas895

Exodus for Oregon896

The Missouri897

Columbus898

JOHN MUIR (1838-1914)898

From Steep Trails899

Nevada＇s Dead Towns899

MARY AUSTIN (1868-1934)901

The Shade of the Arrows902

Opinion in the New South905

SIDNEY LANIER (1842-1881)905

The Symphony905

The Stirrup-Cup909

The Marshes of Glynn909

A Ballad of the Trees and the Master911

JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS (1848-1908)911

From Uncle Remus：His Songs and Sayings912

Ⅱ．The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story912

Ⅳ．How Mr．Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr．Fox913

HENRY WOODFIN GRADY (1850-1889)914

The New South914

PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR (1872-1906)919

We Wear the Mask919

Sympathy919

The Turning of the Babies in the Bed920

Economic and Political Thought920

JOHN BURROUGHS (1837-1921)920

From My Boyhood921

The Mood of the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Farm921

ANDREW CARNEGIE (1835-1919)925

From The Empire of Business926

Business Men and Speculators926

Merchants and Professional Men927

Rewards of a Business Career928

LEWIS HENRY MORGAN (1818-1881)928

From Ancient Society929

Democracy and Social Evolution929

STEPHEN J．FIELD (1816-1899)932

Slaughterhouse Opinion933

WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER (1840-1910)935

From The Absurd Effort to Make the World Over935

RICHARD T．ELY (1854- )939

Ethics and Economics939

LESTER F．WARD (1841-1913)943

Dynamic sociology and Laissez Faire944

WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN (1860-1925)946

The Cross of Gold946

CARL SCHURZ (1829-1906)949

Platform of the American Anti-Imperialist League949

HENRY ADAMS (1838-1918)951

From The Education of Henry Adams952

The Individual as Primitive Energy952

ALFRED THAYER MAHAN (1840-1914)955

From Armaments and Arbitration955

The Strategy of the Pacific955

THEODORE ROOSEVELT (1858-1919)957

From A Charter of Democracy958

LINCOLN STEFFENS (1866-1936)962

From The Shame of the Cities962

The Faith of the Muckrakers962

WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT (1857-1930)965

From Ethics in Service966

Do We Want More Democracy?966

ELIHU ROOT (1845-1937)969

From Judicial Decisions and Public Feeling970

The Role of the Supreme Court in a Changing Civilization970

WOODROW WILSON (1856-1924)974

From The New Freedom975

What is Liberty?975

For a League of Nations977

WILLIAM EDGAR BORAH (1865-1940)979

Americanism980

ROBERT MARION LA FOLLETTE (1855-1925)982

From The Political Philosophy of Robert M．La Follette982

People Retain right to Control Government982

A Judicial Oligarchy983

General Amnesty Is Demanded983

Social Thought and Humanitarianism984

HENRY GEORGE (1839-1897)984

From Progress and Poverty985

The Persisence of Poverty985

The Single Tax988

EDWARD BELLAMY (1850-1898)989

From Looking backward989

Ch．Ⅻ．The Regimentation of Labor989

JANE ADDAMS (1860-1935)994

From The Excellent Becomes Permanent995

Henry Demarest Lloyd995

JOSIAH ROYCE (1855-1916)997

From Race Questions，Provincialism，and Other American Problems998

Regionalism and Democracy998

JOSIAH STRONG (1847-1916)1001

From Our Country1002

Anglo-Saxon Supremacy1002

America＇s Opportunity1002

JACK LONDON (1876-1916)1004

From The War of the Classes1005

Stolen Thunder1005

From Lost Face1007

To Build a Fire1007

EMMA GOLDMAN (1869-1940)1015

From Anarchism1015

The Theory of Anarchy1015

EUGENE VICTOR DEBS (1855-1926)1018

A Political Credo1019

DANIEL DE LEON (1852-1914)1024

From Socialist Reconstruction of Society1024

The Industrial Union versus the Craft Union1024

FINLEY PETER DUNNE (1867-1936)1026

The Ruling Class1026

The Union of Two Great Fortunes1027

UPTON SINCLAIR (1878- )1028

From The Jungle1029

Ch．Ⅴ．The Speed-Up System1029

HAMLIN GARLAND (1860-1940)1034

Under the Lion＇s Paw1035

EDWIN MARKHAM (1852-1940)1042

The Man with the Hoe1042

JACOB AUGUST RIIS (1849-1914)1043

From A Ten Years War1043

The Battle with the Slum1043

＂O．HENRY，＂WILLIAM SIDNEY PORTER (1862-1910)1046

An Unfinished Story1047

ANZIA YEZIERSKA (1885- )1050

How I Found America1050

MICHAEL PUPIN (1858-1935)1057

From From Immigrant to Inventor1057

Ch．Ⅱ．The Discovery of America1057

Ch．Ⅺ．The Rise of Idealism in American Science1057

HENRY PRATT FAIRCHILD (1880- )1060

From The Melting-Pot Mistake1060

A Metaphor Gone Wrong1060

Religious and Philosophical Thought1066

HORACE BUSHNELL (1802-1876)1066

From A Discourse on the Moral Tendencies and Results of Human History1066

Progress in History to a Law of Love1066

DWIGHT LYMAN MOODY (1837-1899)1068

The Eternal Home1069

NOAH PORTER (1811-1892)1071

From Science and Humanity1071

Through Science and Humanism to Theism1071

JOHN LANCASTER SPALDING (1840-1916)1073

The Catholic Church1073

Relations of Religious and Civil Society1075

ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899)1076

The Religion of Humanity1077

ANDREW DICKSON WHITE (1832-1918)1078

From A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom1079

Reconstructive Force of Scientific Criticism1079

WILLIAM JAMES (1842-1910)1080

From The Will to Believe1081

A Man＇s Religious Faith1081

RUSSELL H．CONWELL (1843-1925)1085

From Acres of Diamonds1085

CHARLES MUNROE SHELDON (1857-1946)1088

From In His Steps1088

Ch．Ⅰ．What is the Christian Way?1088

WALTER RAUSCHENBUSCH (1861-1918)1092

From Christianizing the Social Order1093

The Mood of the Social Gospel1093

From Prayers of the Social Awakening1095

For Children Who Work1095

For Workingmen1095

For the Co-operative Commonwealth1096

THE SOCIAL CREED OF THE METHODIST CHURCH1096

The Social Creed of the Church1096

Western Humorists1097

＂ARTEMUS WARD，＂CHARLES FARRAR BROWNE (1834-1867)1097

Woman＇s Rights1098

The Negro Question1098

＂JOSH BILLINGS，＂HENRY WHEELER SHAW (1818-1885)1100

Aphorisms1100

The Readdy Rooster1101

The Distrikt Skoolmaster1101

＂PETROLEUM V．NASBY，＂DAVID ROSS LOCKE (1833-1888)1102

From The Moral History of America＇s Life-Struggle1102

LⅩⅩⅫ．On Southern Character1102

The Rise of Realism1104

＂MARK TWAIN，＂SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS (1835-1910)1104

From Roughing It1105

Ch．ⅩLⅦ．Buck Fanshaw＇s Death1105

From The Gilded Age1109

Ch．ⅩⅩⅧ．Wall Street and Congressional Appropriations1109

From Old times on the Mississippi1113

Boyish Ambition1113

The Cub Pilot＇s First Lessons1116

From The Mysterious Stranger1122

Ch．Ⅵ．Mankind＇s Low Nature1122

WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS (1837-1920)1126

From Criticism and Fiction1127

Ⅱ．A Defense of Realism1127

ⅩⅥ．Breaking New Ground1129

ⅩⅧ．Tests of Fiction1129

From The Lady of The Aroostook1132

Ch．Ⅰ．Preparing for the Journey1132

Ch．Ⅱ．Boston1135

HENRY JAMES (1843-1916)1140

Four Meetings1141

JOHN HAY (1838-1905)1153

From Pike County Ballads1154

Little Breeches1154

Jim Bludso1155

JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY (1849-1916)1155

The Old Swimmin＇-Hole1156

When the Frost Is on the Punkin1157

Little Orphant Annie1157

EMILY DICKINSON (1830-1886)1158

A Valentine1159

The Snake1160

Success1160

The Soul Selects1160

Afraid?1160

He Put the Belt around My Life1161

He Preached upon＂Breadth＂1161

I Never Saw a Moor1161

STEPHEN CRANE (1871-1900)1161

From The Black Riders1162

Ⅰ．Black Riders Came from the Sea1162

Ⅲ．In the Desert1162

ⅩⅧ．In Heaven1162

ⅩⅩⅣ．I Saw a Man Pursuing the Horizon1162

ⅩⅩⅩⅤ．A Man Saw a Ball of Gold in the Sky1163

LⅤ．A Man Toiled on a Burning Road1163

From War Is Kind1163

Ⅰ．Do Not Weep，Maiden，for War Is Kind1163

Ⅻ．A Newspaper Is a Collection of Half-Injustices1163

ⅩⅢ．The Wayfarer1163

From The Red Badge of Courage1164

Ch．Ⅸ．Death of Jim Conklin1164

AMBROSE BIERCE (1842-1914?)1166

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge1166

WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY (1869-1910)1171

Gloucester Moors1172

An Ode in Time of Hesitation1173

RICHARD HOVEY (1864-1900)1175

Comrades1176

The Wander Lovers1176

Spring1177

Unmanifest Destiny1180

SARAH ORNE JEWETT (1849-1909)1180

The Dulham Ladies1181

MARY E．WILKINS FREEMAN (1862-1930)1187

From The Portion of Labor1187

Ch．Ⅸ．The Shutdown1187

EDITH WHARTON (1862-1937)1191

Xingu1192

Ⅵ．CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT．1919-1205

INTRODUCTION TO PART VI1207

Trends in Social and Political Thought1209

LIBERTY HYDE BAILEY (1858- )1209

From The Harvest1209

One Hundred and Twenty-Nine Farmers1209

THE SOUTH AND THE AGRARIAN TRADITION1212

From I＇ll Take My Stand1212

An Agrarian Economic Policy1212

DAVID COHN (1896- )1214

From God Shakes Creation1214

Ch．Ⅱ．The Delta Land1214

Ch．Ⅺ．The Last Stand of Noblesse Oblige1217

HENRY FORD (1863- )1219

From My Life and Work1219

What We May Expect1219

THORSTEIN VEBLEN (1857-1929)1221

From The Theory of the Leisure Class1222

Conspicuous Leisure1222

From The Engineers and the Price System1224

The Captains of Finance and the Engineers1224

JOHN MITCHELL (1870-1919)1225

The Trade Union Movement1225

JOHN L．LEWIS1229

Labor and Democracy1229

JAMES M．BECK (1861-1936)1230

From The Constitution of the United States1231

The Constitution and the Higher Law1231

THE LIMITS OF FREEDOM1232

Suppression of Revolutionary Writings，by Edward Terry Sanford1232

Membership in Revolutionary Parties，by Louis Dembitz Brandeis1235

Freedom of Speech，by Oliver Wendell Holmes1237

HERBERT CLARK HOOVER (1874- )1238

From The Challenge to Liberty1239

We May Sum Up1239

HORACE M．KALLEN (1882- )1243

From Individualism－An American Way of Life1244

Individualism1244

CARL LOTUS BECKER (1873-1945)1246

From Everyman His Own Historian1246

Liberalism－A Way Station1246

FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT (1882-1945)1250

A Revised Concept of Democracy1251

The Challenge of Democracy to Communism and Fascism1253

FRANCES PERKINS (1882- )1256

From People at Work1256

Government and Co-operation1256

JOHN DEWEY (1859- )1259

From Democracy and Education1260

The Inner and the Outer1260

The Opposition of Duty and Interest1262

Summary1263

EVERETT DEAN MARTIN (1880-1941)1264

From Civilizing Ourselves1264

Civilization vs．Barbarism1264

CHARLES A．BEARD (1874- )1268

From A Charter for the Social Sciences1268

The Climate of American Ideas1268

JAMES WELDON JOHNSON (1871-1938)1270

Go Down，Death1271

From The Book of American Negro Poetry1272

The Negro＇s Contribution to American Art1272

Trends in Religious and Philosophical Thought1276

GEORGE SANTAYANA (1863- )1276

Brief History of My Opinions1277

Sonnet Ⅲ．＂O World，Thou Choosest Not the Better Part＂1284

Ode Ⅱ．＂My Heart Rebels against My Generation＂1284

HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK (1878- )1284

From A Christian Conscience about War1285

CURTIS WILLIFORD REESE (1887- )1288

From Humanist Sermons1289

Modern Humanism1289

JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH (1893- )1292

From The Modern Temper1293

The Disillusion with the Laboratory1293

REINHOLD NIEBUHR (1892- )1297

From An Interpretation of Christian Ethics1298

A Criticism of Protestant Modernism1298

Trends in Recent Literary Criticism1301

VAN WYCK BROOKS (1886- )1301

From Sketches in Criticism1302

The Critical Movement in America1302

STUART PRATT SHERMAN (1881-1926)1307

From On Contemporary Literature1308

A Humanistic Literary Criticism1308

The Writer＇s Problems1312

T．S．ELIOT (1888- )1313

From Selected Essays，1917-19321313

Tradition and the Individual Talent1313

SHERWOOD ANDERSON (1876-1941)1317

From Sherwood Anderson＇s Notebook1318

An Apology for Crudity1318

H．L．MENCKEN (1880- )1319

From Prejudices，Fifth Series1320

The Novel1320

V．F．CALVERTON (1900-1940)1322

From The Newer Spirit1323

The Impermanency of Aesthetic Values1323

WALDO FRANK (1889- )1326

From American Writers＇ Congress1327

Values of the Revolutionary Writer1327

B．A．BOTKIN (1901- )1331

The New Regionalism1331

Trends in Recent Poetry1333

EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (1869-1935)1333

An Old Story1334

Sonnet1334

Cliff Klingenhagen1334

Richard Cory1334

Octaves，Ⅰ，Ⅳ，Ⅵ，Ⅹ，ⅩⅣ，ⅩⅩ1335

Two Quatrains1335

Credo1335

How Annandale Went Out1336

Miniver Cheevy1336

Uncle Ananias1336

Flammonde1336

Mr．Flood＇s Party1338

Karma1338

ROBERT FROST (1875- )1339

The Pasture1339

The Tuft of Flowers1339

Mending Wall1340

Birches1340

Home Burial1341

The Road Not Taken1342

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Eve|ning1343

The Cow in Apple Time1343

The Runaway1343

Not to Keep1343

A Lone Striker1344

VACHEL LINDSAY (1879-1931)1344

A Gospel of Beauty1345

General William Booth Enters into Heaven1347

Incense1347

To Reformers in Despair1348

Shakespeare1348

Michelangelo1348

Lincoln1348

The Leaden-Eyed1348

Factory Windows Are Always Droken1348

The Unpardonable Sin (From＂War＂)1348

A Net to Snare the Moonlight1348

The Moon＇s the North Wind＇s Cooky1349

The Scientific Aspiration1349

Another Word on the Scientific Aspiration1349

The Modest Jazz-Bird1349

EDGAR LEE MASTERS (1869- )1350

From Spoon River Anthology1350

Benjamin Pantier1350

Mrs．Benjamin Pantier1351

Reuben Pantier1351

Emily Sparks1351

Trainor，the Druggist1351

Seth Compton1351

Anne Rutledge1352

Archibald Higbie1352

CARL SANDBURG (1878- )1352

Chicago1353

Nocturne in a Deserted Brickyard1353

Fog1353

Happiness1353

Mag1354

Anna Imroth1354

Iron1354

Buttons1354

Under a Telephone Pole1354

I Am the People，the Mob1355

Cahoots1355

Prayers of Steel1355

From Prairie1355

Cool Tombs1356

AMY LOWELL (1874-1925)1356

Patterns1357

SARA TEASDALE (1884-1933)1358

The Wayfarer1359

Spring Night1359

I Shall Not Care1359

The Inn of Earth1359

Barter1360

Night Song at Amalfi1360

Day＇s Ending1360

EDNA ST．VINCENT MILLAY (1892- )1360

Renascence1361

God＇s World1363

Lament1363

And You as Well Must Die1363

ELINOR WYLIE (1885-1928)1363

The Eagle and the Mole1364

Madman＇s Song1364

Velvet Shoes1364

From Wild Peaches1365

Let No Charitable Hope1365

Hymn to Earth1365

STEPHEN VINCENT BENET (1898-1943)1366

From John Brown＇s Body1367

Prelude－The Slaver1367

Litany for Dictatorships1369

EZRA POUND (1885- )1371

Ballad for Gloom1372

Revolt1372

A Pact1373

In a Station at the Metro1373

Portrait d＇une Femme1373

Commission1373

THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT (1888- )1374

The Hippopotamus1374

The Love Song of J．Alfred Prufrock1375

The Hollow Men1376

From The Rock1378

ROBINSON JEFFERS (1887- )1380

To the Stone-Cutters1380

Apology for Bad Dreams1380

Hurt Hawks1382

Age in Prospect1382

Credo1382

Pelicans1383

Shine，Perishing Republic1383

CONRAD AIKEN (1889- )1383

All Lovely Things1384

Discordants1384

Morning Song of Senlin1385

Preludes for Memnon，I1386

ARCHIBALD MACLEISH (1898- )1387

Lines for an Interment1387

Speech to Those Who Say Comrade1388

Speech to the Detractors1388

HORACE GREGORY (1898- )1389

A Boy of Twenty1389

Emerson：Last Days of Concord1390

Chorus for Survival，I1390

Trends in Recent Fiction1392

THEODORE DREISER (1871-1946)1392

The Lost Phoebe1393

ZONA GALE (1874- )1400

From Yellow Gentians and Blue1401

The Charivari1401

OLE ROLVAAG (1876-1931)1402

From Giants in the Earth1402

Home-Founding1402

Facing the Great Desolation1405

On the Border of Utter Darkness1406

The Power of Evil in High Places1408

The Great Plain Drinks the Blood of Christian Men and Is Satisfied1412

SHERWOOD ANDERSON (1876-1941)1413

I＇m a Fool1413

RINGGOLD WILMER LARDNER (1885-1933)1419

The Golden Honeymoon1419

SINCLAIR LEWIS (1885- )1427

From Babbitt1428

Ch．Ⅰ．The Babbitts of Zenith1428

Ch．Ⅱ．The Babbitt Family at Breakfast1433

ERNEST HEMINGWAY (1898- )1437

The Killers1437

JOHN DOS PASSOS (1896- )1442

From The Big Money1443

Charley Anderson1443

Newsreel ⅩLⅤ1445

The American Plan1446

Newsreel ⅩLⅥ1448

The Camera Eye (43)1448

Newsreel ⅩLⅦ1449

The Camera Eye (44)1449

WILLIAM FAULKNER (1897- )1450

That Evening Sun1450

WILLIAM SAROYAN (1908- )1459

Snake1459

THOMAS WOLFE (1900-1938)1461

Death the Proud Brother1462

Recent Drama1474

EUGENE O＇NEILL (1888- )1474

The Emperor Jones1475

America and the World Crisis1489

RALPH BARTON PERRY (1876- )1491

From Shall Not Perish from the Earth1491

Ch．Ⅰ．Making a Decision1491

Ch．Ⅴ．Democracy in Jeopardy1491

FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT (1882-1945)1499

＂Hostilities Exist＂1499

America＇s Role in the War1500

War with Germany and Italy1504

WENDELL L．WILLKIE (1892-1944)1504

From One World1505

Ch．Ⅰ．Our Thinking Must Be World Wide1505

Ch．ⅩⅣ．One World1505

ARTHUR HOLLY COMPTON (1892- )1509

Science Shaping American Culture1509

VANNEVAR BUSH (1890- )1514

From Endless Horizons1514

The Control of Atomic Energy1514

RUFUS M．JONES (1863- )1517

The Church and the New World Mind1517

WILLIAM CLYDE DEVANE (1898- )1522

American Education after the War1523

BIBLIOGRAPHIES1529

CHRONOLOGY1539

INDEX1555