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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The American Credo, by George Jean Nathan and H. L. Mencken 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: The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind Author: George Jean Nathan H. L. Mencken Release Date: December 14, 2007 [EBook #23858] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE AMERICAN CREDO *** Produced by Annie McGuire and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) THE AMERICAN CREDO A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind BY GEORGE JEAN NATHAN and H. L. MENCKEN NEW YORK ALFRED A. KNOPF 1920 * * * * * _BY H. L. MENCKEN AND GEORGE JEAN NATHAN_ HELIOGABALUS: A BUFFOONERY _BY H. L. MENCKEN_ _BY GEORGE JEAN NATHAN_ THE PHILOSOPHY OF FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE ANOTHER BOOK ON THE THEATRE A BOOK OF BURLESQUES MR. GEORGE JEAN NATHAN PRESENTS IN DEFENSE OF WOMEN A BOOK WITHOUT A TITLE A BOOK OF PREFACES THE POPULAR THEATRE PREJUDICES: FIRST SERIES COMEDIANS ALL * * * * * PREFACE I The superficial, no doubt, will mistake this little book for a somewhat laborious attempt at jocosity. Because, incidentally to its main purpose, it unveils occasional ideas of so inordinate an erroneousness that they verge upon the ludicrous, it will be set down a piece of spoofing, and perhaps denounced as in bad taste. But all the while that main purpose will remain clear enough to the judicious. It is, in brief, the purpose of clarifying the current exchange of rhetorical gas bombs upon the subject of American ideals and the American character, so copious, so cocksure and withal so ill-informed and inconclusive, by putting into plain propositions some of the notions that lie at the heart of those ideals and enter into the very substance of that character. "For as he thinketh in his heart," said Solomon
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