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American Ideals:
Their Economic and Social Basis

Heman Chase


[Originally published by the author in 1965. This text is the Third Edition, fourth printing, 1979]








CHAPTER 1

History of American and the Character of its Problems
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CHAPTER 2

Mid-Twentieth Century Conditions in America, With Emphasis on the Rural and Agricultural Life of the People
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CHAPTER 3

Mid-Twentieth Century Conditions in America, With Emphasis on Problems of its Industralized, Urban Society
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CHAPTER 4

Our Part in the Problem of War
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CHAPTER 5

The Drift from a Traditional Toward an Alien Philosophy
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SECOND PART

Up Toward the Light of Reason
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CHAPTER 6

Land, the Indispensible Basis of all Human Activity and Life
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CHAPTER 7

The Prevailing System of Land Tenure, What is Right About it and What is Wrong About it
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CHAPTER 8

The Establishment of Public and Private Rights
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CHAPTER 9

Standpoints From Which the Public Collection of the Rent of Land, in Lieu of all Other Taxation, is Most Frequently Questioned
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CHAPTER 10

The Field of Individual Responsibility and Action
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APPENDIX


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