Contents

UNIT I

   Neat People vs. Sloppy People  1

   Private Language, Public Language  12

UNIT 2

   Ambulance Girl  18

  Struggling for Sanity  30

UNIT 3

  Pain Is Not the Ultimate Enemy  35

 A Crime of Compassion  47

UNIT 4

   Oxford  51

  The Atrophy of Socnal Life  65

UNIT 5

   Conservatives and Liberals  77

   American Manners  89

UNIT 6

   On the Art of Living with Others  95

   Why We Hate  109

UNIT 7

   French and English  117

   Assimilation and Ethnicity  130

   UNIT 8

   

   If Picasso Were a Programmer  137

   The Decline of the Knowledge Factory: Why Our

             College Must Change  152

        UNIT 9

   A Statement to My People on the Eve of War  160

  Blood. Toil, Sweat and Tears  173

UNIT 1 0

  Chinese Humanism  177

  The Doctrine of the Golden Mean  188

UNIT 1 1

 Mr. Preble Gets Rid of His Wife  195

   Cluney McFarrar's Hardtack  208

UNIT 1 2

   The Artist in America  213

   Carlyle  227

UNIT 1 3

  On Self-Respect  234

  The Self in Literature  248

UNIT 14

  The Two Cultures  256

  Racism and Culture  271