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Prejudices, fourth series

Chapter 90: INDEX
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The collection gathers sharp, opinionated essays that examine American cultural life and intellectual habits, addressing topics such as national tradition, religion, marriage and monogamy, politics, justice, art and criticism, and human nature. The author offers polemic and satirical reflections on democratic institutions, aesthetic standards, moral attitudes, and popular psychology, combining close readings of contemporary literature with broader theorizing. Sections move between focused criticism of public institutions and informal meditations on personal and social behavior, repeatedly returning to concerns about authenticity, hypocrisy, and the criteria by which taste and virtue are judged.

INDEX

  • Adams, Samuel, 118
  • Aggasiz, Alexander, 41
  • Allen, James Lane, 286
  • Americanism, 10
  • American Legion, 10, 38, 163, 195
  • Anglo-Saxon, 21 ff.
  • Anti-Saloon League, 10, 88, 161, 183
  • Atherton, Gertrude, 21
  • Bach, Johann Sebastian, 117
  • Beck, James M., 9
  • Beers, Henry A., 12
  • Beethoven, Ludwig van, 240, 251, 263
  • Bennett, Arnold, 281
  • Benson, Admiral, 256
  • Bill of Rights, 99, 100, 226
  • Bismarck, Otto von, 117
  • Bonaparte, Charles J., 230
  • Bookman, 286, 292
  • Boyd, Ernest, 15
  • Boynton, Percy H., 14
  • Brahms, Johannes, 251
  • Brandeis, Louis D., 101
  • Brann, Otto, 292
  • Brook, Rupert, 292
  • Brooks, Van Wyck, 18
  • Brownell, Wm. C., 9, 14, 16
  • Browning, Robert, 118
  • Bryan, Wm. Jennings, 58, 60
  • Bryant, William Cullen, 16
  • Bush, Irving T., 214
  • Butler, Nicholas Murray, 170
  • Cabell, James Branch, 14, 18, 40, 284, 285
  • Cather, Willa, 285, 291
  • Chambers, Robert W., 286
  • Chaplin, Charlie, 261
  • Chicago Literary Times, 12
  • Civil Service Reform, 229
  • Churchill, Winston, 291
  • Clemens, Samuel L., 15, 17, 19, 138, 279, 280, 286
  • Cleveland, Grover, 69
  • Comstock, Anthony, 164
  • Congressional Record, 43, 53, 122
  • Conrad, Joseph, 141, 276, 281
  • Coolidge, Calvin, 15, 48, 193, 263
  • Cooper, James Fenimore, 16, 280
  • Crane, Frank, 41
  • Creel, George, 9, 256
  • Czolgosz, Leon, 185
  • Edward VII, 273
  • Edwards, Jonathan, 126
  • Eliot, Charles W., 35, 37, 292
  • Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 15, 17, 142, 280
  • Erskine, John, 14
  • Espionage Act, 87
  • Evans, Fighting Bob, 254
  • Fall, Albert B., 182
  • Fisk, James, 118, 280
  • Fitch, Clyde, 285
  • Ford, Henry, 50, 232
  • Frank, Waldo, 12
  • Froude, James Anthony, 205
  • Fuller, Henry B., 292
  • Fundamentalism, 28, 76
  • Garland, Hamlin, 286
  • Gherardi, Admiral, 255
  • Gladstone, Wm. Ewart, 117
  • God, 61 ff., 116, 240
  • Godfrey, Stuart, 151
  • Godkin, E. L., 230
  • Godwin, William, 220
  • Grant, Madison, 21
  • Grant, U. S., 36, 118
  • Griswold, Rufus W., 17
  • Guest, Edgar A., 41
  • Haeckel, Ernst, 65
  • Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 15, 17, 19, 280
  • Hergesheimer, Joseph, 285, 287, 291
  • Hillis, Newell Dwight, 9
  • Holland, J. G., 16
  • Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 101
  • Howe, E. W., 51
  • Howells, Wm. Dean, 279, 280
  • Huneker, James, 18, 287
  • Huxley, Aldous, 282
  • Huxley, Thomas Henry, 117
  • Jackson, Andrew, 118
  • Jackson, Stonewall, 118
  • James, Henry, 279, 280
  • Jefferson, Thomas, 226
  • Jews, 72, 77
  • Johnson, Samuel, 221
  • Justice, Department of, 10, 180, 186
  • Lee, Robert E., 117
  • Lewis, Sinclair, 284, 290
  • Little Review, 12, 292
  • Lloyd-George, David, 24
  • Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 16
  • Lowell, Amy, 285
  • Lowell, James Russell, 16
  • Luther, Martin, 118
  • McDougall, William, 211
  • Manning, Wm. T., 126, 170
  • Mansfield, Richard, 66
  • Masefield, John, 281
  • Mather, Cotton, 126
  • Matthews, Brander, 14, 21
  • Melville, Herman, 19
  • Mendelssohn, Felix, 117, 246
  • Meredith, George, 281
  • Michigan, Sweet Singer of, 16
  • Mitchell, Donald G., 16
  • Moltke, Helmuth von, 118
  • Monroe, Harriet, 285
  • Moody, Dwight L., 260
  • More, Paul Elmer, 286
  • Rinehart, Mary Roberts, 286
  • Rockefeller, John D., 118, 296
  • Roosevelt, Theodore, 226, 230, 254
  • Sandburg, Carl, 12
  • Schley, Winfield S., 254
  • Schubert, Franz, 246, 248
  • Schurz, Carl, 118
  • S4N, 12
  • Shakespeare, Wm., 104, 178, 280
  • Shaw, George Bernard, 67, 281
  • Sherman, Wm. T., 118
  • Sigourney, Lydia, 16
  • Sims, Admiral, 256
  • Sinclair, May, 282
  • Sinclair, Upton, 149, 291
  • Straton, John Roach, 126
  • Strauss, Johann, 243
  • Sunday, Billy, 15
  • Tarkington, Booth, 292
  • Taylor, Bayard, 16
  • Texas, University of, 12, 14
  • Thomas, Augustus, 285
  • Tolstoi, Lyof, 118
  • Van Dyke, Henry, 18
  • Wagner, Cosima, 249
  • Wagner, Richard, 107, 114, 138, 248 ff.
  • War, American Civil, 36, 233
  • War, Mexican, 36
  • War of 1812, 35
  • War, Revolutionary, 35
  • War, Spanish-American, 36
  • War, World, 36, 233
  • Warner, Charles Dudley, 16
  • Washington, George, 221
  • Wells, H. G., 207, 244, 281
  • Whitman, Walt, 15, 17, 19, 40, 41, 279
  • Whittier, John Greenleaf, 19
  • Willis, N. P., 16
  • Wilson, Woodrow, 70, 180, 202, 226
  • Yerkes, Charles E., 118