Page:Challenge of Facts and Other Essays.djvu/308

 Colonial society; embryonic society. &mdash; American history disproves the notion of the "Boon of Nature, etc." &mdash; Movement of American history away from anarchistic liberty. &mdash; Colonial industrial organisation the slightest possible. &mdash; No employer and employee or other classes. &mdash; Social organization was characterized by equality and democracy. &mdash; But there were modifications of democracy: 1. Aristocratic distinctions, so far as possible; 2. Distinctions by talent and industry; 3. Slavery. &mdash; Summary of points about democracy and classes. &mdash; Colonial society furnishes a test of the village community notion. &mdash; No society of free and independent tillers only. &mdash; Analysis of democracy; definition of its varieties. &mdash; Aristocracy of slavery. &mdash; Jacobinism and sansculottism. &mdash; The Constitution-makers and democracy. &mdash; Sense of radical and conservative in America. &mdash; Upper classes and political duty. &mdash; Significance of organisation. &mdash; Advantages of a new country. &mdash; The escape from tradition. &mdash; No manors. &mdash; Agriculture and land tenure in the colonies. &mdash; The town and township. &mdash; Extension of loyalty from town to province, then to Union. &mdash; The advancing civil organisation. &mdash; Disruptive forces. &mdash; Anarchistic liberty; it is limited in towns by unpopularity and gossip. &mdash; Character produced by anarchistic liberty. &mdash; Character produced by great chances of wealth. &mdash; Liberty due to freedom from powerful neighbors. &mdash; Merits of the quarrel with England, 1763–1775. &mdash; Effects of disorganization in the Revolution. &mdash; Effects of disorganization under the Confederation. &mdash; Constitution unwelcome; why? &mdash; Grand extension of discipline and reign of law. &mdash; How the federal government took the place of Great Britain. &mdash; It had to deal with the same anarchistic elements. &mdash; Necessity that these should be overcome. &mdash; The work of the Federal party. &mdash; The course of the Jeffersonians. &mdash; The Supreme Court has helped the integration. &mdash; Police were needed in cities to uphold the authority of law. &mdash; Survival of Revolutionaiy delusions in the Civil War. &mdash; Latest phenomena of those delusions. &mdash; Combination of the different stages of organization in the United States now. &mdash; Inevitableness of struggle for mastery in the Union. &mdash; The future will see condensation of the organization. &mdash; Advantage of rapidity of growth. &mdash; Institutions in the Constitution. &mdash; War between democracy and