ABSTRACT
The humanism of Shakespeare and Hooker and the founders of colonial liberty in America, the humanism of their colonial successors and of the Revolutionary perpetuators of Anglo-Saxon liberty, called for the well-rounded man. The intellectual arrogance that distinguishes the prevailing foe today found no place in Shakespeare’s microcosm of human worth; nor has it found acceptance in Shakespeare’s England or in any modern democracy, monarchical or republican, of civilized ideals. Shakespeare’s state, in its relation with other states, is bounded by legal sanction and regulated by Justice. His great contemporary, the philosopher of the patriotic movement from which America derived its ideals of individual and national liberty and of fraternity with mankind, was of like opinion. The time has come for searching of the heart, for open speech; for patient leading toward the light; for exercise of American discipline; for maintenance of American prerogative and dignity.
