ABSTRACT
Thomas Woodrow Wilson, as a child, inhaled the ideas and ideals of the middle class Bible-reading Britishers who had spread an Old Testament view of life over America. Inevitably Wilson clothed the desires of his libido in the approved habiliments of the British non-conformist middle class. The civilization in which a child is educated nevertheless influences his character. It determines at least the style of the clothing in which his desires must be dressed in order to appear respectable. His convictions were British middle class convictions. By every unconscious identification he must have felt himself to be a middle class Britisher, and his abundant Narcissism made him admire these whose marriages had resulted in the procreation of him. His conscious mind remained all his life the mind of a North British Presbyterian Minister. Often during the years of his Princeton presidency Wilson repeated the thought contained in his statement that he felt "like a new prime minister".
