CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I | The American Mind | [ 3] |
| II | Conservative America | [ 29] |
| III | Radical America | [ 61] |
| IV | American Idealism | [ 91] |
| V | Religion in America | [ 120] |
| VI | Literature in America | [ 149] |
| VII | The Bourgeois American | [ 175] |
EVERYDAY AMERICANS
EVERYDAY AMERICANS
CHAPTER I
THE AMERICAN MIND
IN England there developed long ago, perhaps as far back as the days of Shakespeare, who was aristocratic in his tastes and democratic in his sympathies, a curious political animal called the radical-conservative. The radical-conservative, as Lord Fitzmaurice once said, is a man who would have been a radical outright if radicals had not been dissenters; by which he clearly meant that the species agreed with radical principles, but objected to radicals because they did not have good manners, seldom played cricket, and never belonged to the best clubs. Therefore the radical-conservative stays in his own more congenial class while working for social justice toward all other classes. He is willing to vote with the conservative party in return for concessions in labor laws, inheritance taxes, or the safeguarding of public health.