CONTENTS Introduction, History of a Literary Radical, Our Cultural Humility, Six Portraits, First-Karen, Second-Sophronisba, Third-Mon Amie, Fourth-Fergus, Fifth-The Professor, Sixth-One of Our Conquerors, This Older Generation, A Mirror of the Middle West, Ernest: or Parent for a Day, On Discussion, The Puritan's Will to Power, The Immanence of Dostoevsky, The Art of Theodore Dreiser, The Uses of Infallibility, Impressions of Europe, 1913-14, Trans-National America, Fragment of a Novel,