CONTENTSCHAPTER PAGEI.—[President Harding and the Clock. God's Time as it was in the American Political Consciousness ]3II.—[God's Time as it is; an Ingersoll that Requires Much Winding ]21III.—[Golden Words Turn to Brass ]36IV.—[The Super-President Goes Down in the General Smash ]61V.—[Looking for Ultimate Wisdom—in the Bosom of Thérèse ]80VI.—[Shall We Find our Salvation Sitting, Like Mr. Mellon, on a Pile of Dollars ]101VII.—[The Bottle Neck of the Cabinet, and What is in the Bottle ]119VIII.—[The Greatest Common Divisor of Much Littleness ]142IX.—[Congress at Last with Something to Do has no one to Do it ]156X.—[Interlude. Introducing a Few Members of the Upper House Booboisie and Some Others ]173XI.—[A Peak of Reality Thrusts up on the Level Plain of Shams ]204XII.—[The Happy Ending ]226