ABSTRACT
More (1864–1937) was an American author of many philosophical works. He served as literary editor of the Independent in 1901 and of the New York Evening Post in 1903; he was editor of the Nation from 1909 to 1914. Along with Irving Babbitt, he was an apostle of American ‘humanism’, which meant tradition, decorum, and classicism. He was opposed to all forms and expressions of ‘naturalism’. His comment on Manhattan Transfer is extracted from The Demon of the Absolute (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1928, 63). At this point in the book More is comparing the Eastern ‘aesthetes’ with the Mid-western ‘realists’.
