# American ideals, and other essays, social and political

Author: Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919; Greene, F. V. (Francis Vinton), 1850-1921 [Contributor]

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71581

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## Summary

not merely interesting but soul-stirring, and it contains much with which most of us would heartily agree. Through the cold impartiality with which he strives to work merely as a recorder of facts, there break now and then flashes of pent-up wrath and vehement scorn for all that is mean and petty in a purely materialistic, purely capitalistic, civilization. With his scorn of what is ignoble and base in our development, his impatient contempt of the deification of the stock-market, the trading-counter, and the factory, all generous souls must agree. When we see prominent men deprecating the assertion of national honor because it “has a bad effect upon business,” or because it “impairs the...

## Chapters

- [chapter I should equally differ; and yet this chapter is one which is](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/american-ideals-and-other-essays-social-and-political-71581/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part II. The Campaigns of 1862. With 13 maps. 8vo. 2.50](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/american-ideals-and-other-essays-social-and-political-71581/chapters/2/index.md)