ABSTRACT
America is affecting Europe in so many ways, and at so many different levels, that it is difficult to know where to begin, or what kind of influence to regard as the more important. How can we compare, and how bring within the compass of one discourse, such disparate matters as the effect of Mr. Justice Holmes on the mind of Mr. Laski? I cannot answer such a question. I will only say, to begin with, that Europeans with pretensions to culture are too apt to remember Hollywood with a sniff, and forget the respect due to such men as Holmes, who was, after all, equally a product of America. I will try to rectify this one-sidedness by dwelling chiefly upon the importance of America in the world of ideas.
