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Under Dispute (1924)
by Agnes Repplier
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Under Dispute

Under Dispute

By
Agnes Repplier, Litt.D.
Author of "Points of Friction," "Compromises," "Counter-Currents," etc.

Boston and New York
Houghton Mifflin Company
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1924

Copyright, 1924, by Agnes Repplier
All rights reserved
The Riverside Press
Cambridge · Massachusetts
Printed in the U.S.A.

Note

Five of the twelve essays in this volume, "To Counsel the Doubtful," "The Happiness of Writing an Autobiography," "The Divineness of Discontent," "Strayed Sympathies," and "The Battle-field of Education," are reprinted through the courtesy of The Atlantic Monthly; four of them, "The Masterful Puritan," "Are Americans a Timid People?" "Allies," and "The American Laughs," through the courtesy of The Yale Review; "The Preacher at Large," through the courtesy of The Century Magazine; "They Had Their Day," through the courtesy of Harper's Magazine; "The Idolatrous Dog," through the courtesy of The Forum.

Contents

The Masterful Puritan 1
"To Counsel the Doubtful" 31
Are Americans a Timid People? 58
The Happiness of Writing an Autobiography 88
Strayed Sympathies 119
The Divineness of Discontent 148
Allies 178
They Had Their Day 203
The Preacher at Large 233
The Battle-field of Education 258
The American Laughs 286
The Idolatrous Dog 312



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