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The Project Gutenberg EBook of What I Saw in America, by G. K. Chesterton This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: What I Saw in America Author: G. K. Chesterton Release Date: November 13, 2008 [EBook #27250] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WHAT I SAW IN AMERICA *** Produced by Irma Spehar, Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) WHAT I SAW IN AMERICA BY G. K. CHESTERTON HODDER AND STOUGHTON LIMITED LONDON MCMXXII Printed in Great Britain by T. and A. CONSTABLE LTD. at the Edinburgh University Press _Contents_ PAGE WHAT IS AMERICA? 1 A MEDITATION IN A NEW YORK HOTEL 19 A MEDITATION IN BROADWAY 33 IRISH AND OTHER INTERVIEWERS 47 SOME AMERICAN CITIES 63 IN THE AMERICAN COUNTRY 80 THE AMERICAN BUSINESS MAN 97 PRESIDENTS AND PROBLEMS 121 PROHIBITION IN FACT AND FANCY 145 FADS AND PUBLIC OPINION 163 THE EXTRAORDINARY AMERICAN 182 THE REPUBLICAN IN THE RUINS 195 IS THE ATLANTIC NARROWING? 208 LINCOLN AND LOST CAUSES 222 WELLS AND THE WORLD STATE 235 A NEW MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT 253 THE SPIRIT OF AMERICA 267 THE SPIRIT OF ENGLAND 281 THE FUTURE OF DEMOCRACY 295 _What is America?_ I have never managed to lose my old conviction that travel narrows the mind. At least a man must make a double effort of moral humility and imaginative energy to prevent it from narrowing his mind. Indeed there is something touching and even tragic about the thought of the thoughtless tourist, who might have stayed at home loving Laplanders, embracing Chinamen, and clasping Patagonians to his heart in Hampstead or Surbiton, but for his blind and suicidal impulse to go and see what they looked like. This is not meant for nonsense; still less is it meant for
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