American Ideals:
Their Economic and Social Basis

Heman Chase

[Originally published by the author in 1965.
This text is the Third Edition, fourth printing, 1979]

CHAPTER 1 History of America and the Character of its Problems CHAPTER 2 Mid-Twentieth Century Conditions in America, With Emphasis on the Rural and Agricultural Life of the People CHAPTER 3 Mid-Twentieth Century Conditions in America, With Emphasis on Problems of its Industralized, Urban Society CHAPTER 4 Our Part in the Problem of War CHAPTER 5 The Drift from a Traditional Toward an Alien Philosophy SECOND PART : Up Toward the Light of Reason CHAPTER 6 Land, the Indispensible Basis of all Human Activity and Life CHAPTER 7 The Prevailing System of Land Tenure, What is Right About it and What is Wrong About it CHAPTER 8 The Establishment of Public and Private Rights CHAPTER 9 Standpoints From Which the Public Collection of the Rent of Land, in Lieu of all Other Taxation, is Most Frequently Questioned CHAPTER 10 The Field of Industrial Responsibility and Action APPENDIX Appendix