Hier Kindheit, Mann und Greis sein tüchtig Jahr.
Solch’ ein Gewimmel möcht’ ich sehn,
Auf freiem Grund mit freiem Volke stehn.
—Goethe’s “Faust.”
Executive Mansion, Albany, N. Y.
September, 1900.
[CONTENTS]
| The Strenuous Life | [3] |
| Expansion and Peace | [23] |
| Latitude and Longitude Among Reformers | [37] |
| Fellow-feeling as a Political Factor | [58] |
| Civic Helpfulness | [80] |
| Character and Success | [98] |
| The Eighth and Ninth Commandments in Politics | [107] |
| The Best and the Good | [113] |
| Promise and Performance | [119] |
| The American Boy | [128] |
| Military Preparedness and Unpreparedness | [138] |
| Admiral Dewey | [156] |
| Grant | [171] |
| The Two Americas | [189] |
| Manhood and Statehood | [201] |
| Brotherhood and the Heroic Virtues | [215] |
| National Duties | [228] |
| The Labor Question | [245] |
| Christian Citizenship | [262] |