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The Unpopular Review

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CONTENTS OF THE PRECEDING NUMBER (18, for April-June, 1918)


  WHY AMERICA LAGS, Alvin S. Johnson, Professor in Stanford
    University.
  ON GOING AFOOT, Charles S. Brooks.
  THE PROBLEM OF ALSACE-LORRAINE, C. D. Hazen, Professor in
    Columbia University.
  VISCOUNT MORLEY, Paul Elmer More, Advisory Editor of _The
    Nation_.
  THE ADVENTURE OF THE TRAINING CAMP, George R. MacMinn,
    Professor in University of California.
  HALF SOLES, Herbert Wilson Smith.
  PRICE FIXING BY GOVERNMENT, David McGregor Means.
  TURKEY UNDER GERMAN TUTELAGE, Rufus W. Lane.
  MACHINE AND MAN, Grant Showerman, Professor in University of
    Wisconsin.
  THE ATHLETIC HABIT OF MIND, Edward F. Hayward.
  ARBITERS OF FATE, Virginia Clippinger.
  FOOD CONSERVATION AND THE WOMAN, Mary Austin.
  SOME REFLECTIONS ON REVOLUTION, T. Lothrop Stoddard.
  THE JOB AND THE OUTSIDER, H. W. Boynton.
  DURCHALTEN! Vernon L. Kellogg, Professor in Stanford
    University.
  A NEW PSYCHIC SENSITIVE, The Editor.
  CORRESPONDENCE: "The Obscurity of Philosophers"--Our Tax
    Troubles Again.
  EN CASSEROLE: Concerning these Hasty War Marriages--Bergson
    and the Yellow Peril--A Problematic Personality--"Clause" and
    "Phrase."





CONTENTS

FOR JULY-SEPTEMBER, 1918


  NATURALIZATION IN THE SPOTLIGHT OF WAR                          1
  WAR PROPHETS                                                   19
  MY FRIEND THE JAY                                              33
  THE FLEMISH QUESTION                                           43
  IMMORTALITY IN LITERATURE                                      56
  CARLYLE AND KULTUR                                             66
  THE FREEDOM OF THE SEAS                                        79
  THE CONDITIONS OF TOLERANCE                                    94
  THE NEO-PARNASSIANS                                           106
  HUMANISM AND DEMOCRACY                                        114
  THE MODERN MEDICINE MAN                                       127
  "THE PUREST OF HUMAN PLEASURES"                               140
  WAR FOR EVOLUTION'S SAKE                                      146
  JOHN FISKE                                                    160
  PLEASE EXPLAIN THESE DREAMS                                   190
  CORRESPONDENCE                                                201
    More Freedom from Hereditary Bias
  EN CASSEROLE                                                  202
    If We are Late--The Kindly and Modest German--What the Cat
    Thinks of the Dog--A Hunting-Ground of Ignorance--Maximum
    Price-Fixing in Ancient Rome--Darwin on His Own
    Discoveries--Reflections of an Old-Maid Aunt--An Obscure
    Source of Education--Heart-to-Heart Advertising--The Curse of
    Fall Elections--Larrovitch--Our Index




          The Unpopular Review

    NO. 19    JULY-SEPTEMBER    VOL. X




NATURALIZATION IN THE SPOTLIGHT OF WAR


Amid the manifold uncertainties into which the war has plunged us, one
fact stands out with increased definiteness--that in our midst, and even
voting on our policies, of life or death,--we have had for many years
large numbers of people who at best give only a divided allegiance to
this country, and at worst are devoted and violent partisans of some
foreign state. The evidence of this truth has been of the most
diversified character, including the destruction of warehouses, docks,
and munitions factories, the burning of immense quantities of food, the
manufacture of ineffective torpedoes, the attempted blowing up of war
ships, and the dissemination of disease germs among children, soldiers,
and cattle. The uniform object of all these activities has been the
decrease of the war efficiency of the United States. The indications
seem conclusive that the perpetrators have been, not special German
spies or agents sent over here after our entry into the war or in
anticipation of it, but among the candidates for Mr. Gerard's five
thousand lampposts--persons who have lived in our midst for long
periods, and have been accepted as belonging to us.

So suddenly overwhelming has been the demonstration since the war began,
and particularly since the United States entered the war, that there is
great danger that the impression will become established that the war
created the situation, that the danger is a war danger, and that the
problem will automatically solve itself when the war is over. Nothing
could be more prejudicial to a correct understanding of the situation,
and to a sound solution of the national problems which will confront us
when the war is over. The war has not created the danger from
alien-hearted members of the body politic, it has merely revealed it.
The situation is the creation of our traditional policy toward
foreigners, and the menace inherent in the situation existed, and was
discerned by many close students of political affairs, long before the
war was dreamed of. Although then the manifestations of this danger were
less spectacular, the danger itself was no less persistent, pervasive,
and ins