Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive) INTRODUCING THE AMERICAN SPIRIT BY EDWARD A. STEINER THE CONFESSION OF A HYPHENATED AMERICAN 12mo, boards net 50c. INTRODUCING THE AMERICAN SPIRIT What it Means to a Citizen and How it Appears to an Alien. 12mo, cloth net $1.00 FROM ALIEN TO CITIZEN The Story of My Life in America. Illustrated, 8vo, cloth net $1.50 THE BROKEN WALL Stories of the Mingling Folk. Illustrated, 12mo, cloth net $1.00 AGAINST THE CURRENT Simple Chapters from a Complex Life. 12mo, cloth net $1.25 THE IMMIGRANT TIDE--ITS EBB AND FLOW Illustrated, 8vo, cloth net $1.50 ON THE TRAIL OF THE IMMIGRANT Illustrated, 12mo, cloth net $1.50 THE MEDIATOR A Tale of the Old World and the New. Illustrated, 12mo, cloth net $1.25 TOLSTOY, THE MAN AND HIS MESSAGE A Biographical Interpretation. _Revised and enlarged._ Illustrated, 12mo, cloth net $1.50 THE PARABLE OF THE CHERRIES Illustrated, 12mo, boards net 50c. THE CUP OF ELIJAH Idyll Envelope Series. Decorated net 25c. [Illustration: THE AMERICAN SPIRIT _Courtesy of The Survey V. D. Brenner_] _Introducing The American Spirit By Edward A. Steiner Author of "From Alien to Citizen," "The Immigrant Tide," etc._ [Illustration] _New York Chicago Toronto Fleming H. Revell Company London and Edinburgh_ Copyright, 1915, by FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY New York: 158 Fifth Avenue Chicago: 125 North Wabash Ave. Toronto: 25 Richmond Street, W. London: 21 Paternoster Square Edinburgh: 100 Princes Street _To Professor Richard Hochdoerfer, Ph. D. erudite scholar and most lovable friend, this book is dedicated_ _Introducing the Introduction_ "_Das ist ganz Americanish_." Whenever a German says this, he means that it is something which is practical, lavish, daringly reckless or lawless. It means a short cut to achievement, a disregard of convention, an absence of those qualities which have given to the older nations of the world that fine, distinguishing flavor which is a fruit of the spirit. Many attempts have been made to enlighten the Old World upon that point; but in spite of exchange-professorships and some notable, interpretative books upon the subject, we are still only the "Land of the Dollar." We are not loved as a nation, largely because we are not understood, and we are not understood because we do not understand ourselves, and we do not understand ourselves because we have not studied ourselves in the light of the spirit of other nations.