ABSTRACT
When the Americans elected to give it allegiance and to order-or confuse-their lives by its dogmas and practices it was a new thing in Europe, the challenge of present thought to old institutions, nowhere tested in action or established in conduct. The corporate personality which was defined by the philosophy of natural rights of the Declaration of Independence and was embodied in the form of federal government established by the Constitution, is essentially an artificial thing. The moving life of the nation may glide from under them, carrying their worshippers into new and unexpected relations and responsibilities. Whether in Europe or America, pioneering, hardship and insecurity of life in the wilderness are ever accompanied by intense faith and proportionate intolerance. The world which an American student was preparing for was a world in which everything was in process, a world without traditions, standards, conventions or hereditary classes.
