Pt. I. The American adaptation of the European heritage: A variety of peoples bequeath legacies to the new nation
Colonial conditions modify the old world heritage
The transmission of polite learning and of scientific interests
The rise of the enlightenment
Pt. II. The growth of Americanism: The revolutionary shift in empahsis
the expanding enlightenment
The conservative reaction
Pt. III. Patrician leadership: Patrician direction of thought
Nationalism challenges cosmopolitanism and regionalism
The west challenges patrician leadership
Pt. IV. Democratic upheaval: New currents of equalitarian thought and practice
The advance of science and technology
The popularization of knowledge
The rising tide of patriotism and nationalism
Pt. V. Triumph of nationalism in social and political thought: Cultural regionalism in the old south
The thrust of the Civil War inot intellectual life
The nature of the new nationalism
Business and the life of the mind
Pt. VI. The assertion of individualism ina corporate age of applied science: The delimitation of supernaturalism
Evolutionary thought in a utilitarian society
Professionalization and popularization of learning
Formulas of protest and reform
Pt. VII. Optimism encounters diversions, criticism, and contraction: America recorsses the oceans
Prosperity, disillusionment, criticism
