Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
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 m...
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 ani...
2. CHAPTER IIThere is one experience that conservative-liberal America--bourgeois America, the pushing America that gets what it wants on this side of the ocean--possesses in common, and tha...
3. CHAPTER IIIIt is with no intention to be paradoxical that I call America a radical nation. I know well by experience, sometimes galling, what an English labor leader or a French socialist...
4. CHAPTER IVIs American idealism a virtue, a disease, or an illusion? The question cannot be answered in an essay. It is like the inquiry with which Tennyson threatened the flower in the cr...
5. CHAPTER VThe rarest experience in America is a discussion of morals. You can hear morals preached about, but that is not a discussion. You can read about morals in arguments disguised as...
6. CHAPTER VI“Fix’t in sublimest thought behold them rise World after world unfolding to their eyes, Lead, light, allure them thro’ the total plan And give new guidance to the paths of man.”
7. CHAPTER VIIIn the preceding chapters there has been much said of conservatism and radicalism, of idealism and the religious instinct, of literature that expresses the soul of a race. Never...