This professor, I should add, was a man of the old American stock--in fact, a fellow very proud of his colonial ancestry. When he got back to his university he joined in signing a public statement that Prohibition was a great success there. I proceed to another case. One day in the Summer of 1924, during the Republican National Convention at Cleveland, I met an eminent American publicist in a hotel lobby there. He told me at once that he was suffering from a dreadful bellyache. I had a jug in my room, but my own hotel was far away, so I suggested that help might be got from a journalist on the premises. We went to his room, and I introduced the publicist. The journalist promptly got out a bottle and gave him a policeman’s drink. The publicist had recovered in three minutes.... When he got home, he joined, like the professor, in signing a public statement praising Prohibition. 10 _Note in the Margin of a Treatise on Psychology_ As I stoop to lace my shoe you hit me over the coccyx with a length of hickory (_Carya laciniosa_). I conclude instantly that you are a jackass. This is a whole process of human thought in little. This also is free will. 11 _Definition_ Democracy is that system of government under which the people, having 35,717,342 native-born adult whites to choose from, including thousands who are handsome and many who are wise, pick out a Coolidge to be head of the State. It is as if a hungry man, set before a banquet prepared by master cooks and covering a table an acre in area, should turn his back upon the feast and stay his stomach by catching and eating flies. XVIII. CATECHISM _Q._ If you find so much that is unworthy of reverence in the United States, then why do you live here? _A._ Why do men go to zoos? INDEX Abbott, Wilbur C., 152 Adams, John, 146, 158 Altgeld, John Peter, 127 _ff._ American Academy of Arts and Letters, 194 American Association of University Professors, 140 American Legion, 136 _American Mercury_, 120, 127, 141, 146, 152, 164, 169, 172 Americans, 100%, 152 _ff._ Anderson, Sherwood, 56, 180, 194 Anglo-Saxons, 153 _ff._, 163 Anti-Saloon League, 23, 106, 111, 113, 148, 229, 268, 269 Apollinaire, Guillaume, 169 _ff._ Aristotle, 24 Bach, Johann Sebastian, 34 Baltimore, 237 _ff._ Baltimore _Sun_, 260 Baptists, 108 _ff._ Beers, Henry A., 135 Beethoven, Ludwig van, 34, 87 _ff._, 167, 184 Bible, 17, 66, 76 _ff._, 120 _ff._ Bill of Rights, 155 Birth Control, 9 _ff._ Blease, Cole L., 116 Bowers, Claude G., 146 Boyd, Ernest, 169 Brahms, Johannes, 89, 90 _Broom_, 169 Browne, Waldo R., 127 Brownell, William C., 193 Bryan, William Jennings, 64 _ff._, 86, 112, 131, 155, 204, 230 Bryant, William Cullen, 191 Butler, Nicholas Murray, 194 Cabell, James Branch, 180, 194, 196, 217 Cahan, Abraham, 219 Canby, Henry Seidel, 170 Capital Punishment, 21 _ff._ Cathcart case, 265