Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

The Invisible Censor

- THE INVISIBLE CENSOR - WHISKY - BILLY SUNDAY, SALESMAN - FIFTH AVENUE AND FORTY-SECOND STREET - AS AN ALIEN FEELS - SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT - THE NEXT NEW YORK - CHICAGO - THE CLOUDS OF KERRY - HENRY ADAMS - THE AGE OF INNOCENCE - THE IRISH REVOLT - A LIMB OF THE LAW - A PERSO...

Chapters

7. Part 7

"I'll tell you. Right across the hall from where my wife and me live there's a lovely woman, a Jewess, one of the nicest people you could want to meet, and I'm in her house and...

9. Part 9

From London, since the beginning of the war, this concentrated man had gone out of Paris, to Rome, to Petrograd, to join counsel with various allies on the science of providing...

1. Part 1

- THE INVISIBLE CENSOR - WHISKY - BILLY SUNDAY, SALESMAN - FIFTH AVENUE AND FORTY-SECOND STREET - AS AN ALIEN FEELS - SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT - THE NEXT NEW YORK - CHICAGO - THE C...

3. Part 3

"Though you do not know it, I have a soul. Behold, across the way, my library. When the night shrouds those lions and the fresh young trees shake out their greenery against the...

10. Part 10

"Railroading? No, sir, I was in the wholesale dry-goods business. We had just started in in a small way. I was married only two years, to Adelaide's younger sister. Ah, my accid...

8. Part 8

In Asphodelia the poets travel on all-fours, kick their heels toward Mercury, and utter startling cries. In Asphodelia a banker lives in the menagerie, and they feed mathematica...

5. Part 5

But the other side of that hideousness in Chicago is the thing one loves it for, the large freedom from caste and cant which is so much an essential of democracy, the cordiality...

2. Part 2

Before I heard Billy Sunday in Philadelphia I had formed a conception of him from the newspapers. First of all, he was a baseball player become revivalist. I imagined him as a r...

4. Part 4

In reading the newspaper a man most betrays the haphazard, unscrutinized conduct of his morn. We pick up our paper without any suspicion that we are about to commit intellectual...

6. Part 6

Pallid and tepid as the result was, in politics, the autobiography is a refutation of anaemia. There was, indeed, something meager about Henry Adams's soul, as there is somethin...

11. Part 11

The greatest of all platitudes is the platitude that life is in the striving. Is this altogether true? I think not. Not for those menial offices so necessary to our decent exist...