X. AMERICAN TEMPERAMENT AND GOVERNMENT 483

XI-XII. NEWS-BOOKS 505-513

XIII. NEWS-PAPERS 517

XIV. NEWS-MACHINES 524

XV. NEWS-CROWDS 527

XVI. CROWD-MEN 550

EPILOGUE 539




BOOK ONE

CROWDS AND MACHINES


TO CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

_"A battered, wrecked old man
Thrown on this savage shore far, far from home,
Pent by the sea and dark rebellious brows twelve dreary months
... The end I know not, it is all in Thee,
Or small or great I know not--haply what broad fields, what