Religion is in no danger--The letter suffers but the spirit grows--Essentials were never more prominent--The tree is judged by its fruit--Proselyting has gone out of date--Denominations have ceased to fight--A life as well as a faith.....509 CHAPTER XXII. WOMAN AND HER WORK. One “woman’s right” secured--She has a chance almost everywhere--The liberation of man--Woman’s wits sharpen quickly--Advantages over male workers--Woman need not marry for a home--The tables turned--Some effects upon society--Never enslaved unless stupid--The “Song of the Shirt”--The coming generation.....517 CHAPTER XXIII. OUR LITERATURE. A nation of readers--Books to be found everywhere--The Sunday-School library--Chautauqua’s great work--The American author is a busy man--Good books make their way, sooner or later--Abler men should go into authorship--Our literature making its way abroad--American writers’ characteristics--Our literature is clean, earnest and hopeful.....531 CHAPTER XXIV. AMERICAN HUMOR. The salt that will save us--A nation of jokers--Our Puritan and cavalier ancestors were fond of fun--President Lincoln’s jokes--Humor in the pulpit--Fun in the newspapers--Prentice--Mark Twain--Nasby--Nye and Riley--Miles O’Reilly--“Uncle Remus”--John Hay--“Bob” Burdette--All healthy fun--No malignity in our jokes--The best-natured people alive.....547 CHAPTER XXV. THE HIGHER EDUCATION. A land full of colleges--How these institutions began to exist--Tributes to American regard for intelligence and education--Something better needed--No lack of money--Views of Presidents Dwight of Yale, Eliot of Harvard, McCosh of Princeton, White of Cornell, Bartlett of Dartmouth, and Gilman of Johns Hopkins--Bishop Potter on the place of the scholar in America.....566 CHAPTER XXVI. OUR GREAT CONCERN. Our country first and foremost--No sectional differences--No foreign interests or entanglements--The people first, the party afterward--Loyalty to party means disloyalty to the republic--Meddlers must be suppressed--All in the family--One for all and all for one--E Pluribus Unum.....597 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. FACING PAGE Bird’s-eye View of Grounds and Buildings, Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1892-93, Frontispiece Christopher Columbus, 17 Landing of Columbus, 32 Washington, 49 Residence of the President of the United States, 1798, 64 Abraham Lincoln, 81 World’s Fair, New York, 1853, 96 Main Building, International Centennial Exhibition, 1876, 113 Libby Prison, 128 Independence Hall, Philadelphia, 145