"While early American society was an agrarian society, it was fast becoming more commercial, and commercial goals made…"

"Out of the beliefs nourished by the agrarian myth there had arisen the notion that the city was a parasitical growth …"

"The American farmer, whose holdings were not so extensive as those of the grandee nor so tiny as those of the peasant…"

"The utopia of the Populists was in the past, not in the future. According to the agrarian myth, the health of the sta…"

"Anti-intellectualism … has been present in some form and degree in most societies; in one it takes the form of the ad…"

"Major parties have lived more for patronage than for principles; their goal has been to bind together a sufficiently …"

"Clearly, the need for political and economic reform was now felt more widely in the country at large. Another, more o…"

"The long-range trend toward federal regulation, which found its beginnings in the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 and…"

"One of the primary tests of the mood of a society at any given time is whether its comfortable people tend to identif…"

"It is possible that the distinction between moral relativism and moral absolutism has sometimes been blurred because …"