MEN OF GOOD HOPE A Story of American Progressives DANIEL AARON New
York OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1951 Copyright 1951 by Oxford
University Press, Inc. Printed in the United States of America For
Charles Aaron ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The research for this book, begun in
the fall of 1947 5 was made possible by a fellowship from the John
Simon Guggen heim Memorial Foundation. I should like to express my
gratitude to the Foundation for this grant. Many friends have given
me assistance and criticism. I cannot mention them all, but I am
particularly indebted to the following Newton Arvin, for reading
and criticizing my manuscript and help ing me in innumerable ways
Foster Rhea and Marian Dulles, for reading the manuscript and
making valuable recommendations on arrangement and structure and
William Leuchtenburg, for his many criticisms and suggestions. I am
also indebted to George H. Geiger for reading the chapter on Henry
George, to Bernard Barber and Charles Page for read ing the chapter
on Veblen, and to Henry May for reading the last chapter, In
Retrospect. The following people gave me ideas, made corrections,
and facilitated the job of research Henry David, Robert G. Davis,
Chester M. Destler, Bernard DeVoto, David Donald, Harold Faulkner,
Richard Hofstadter, Howard Mumford Jones, Alfred Kazin, Richard
Lewis, F. O. Matthiessen, Stewart Mitchell, John C. Ranney, Max
Salvadori, Peter Viereck, and Conrad Wright. I am grateful to
Margaret Johnson, the Librarian of Smith College, for her many
services. I should also like to thank Agnes Inglis, Curator of the
Joseph A. Labadie Collection of Labor Materials at the University
of Michigan Library Anne S. Pratt, Reference Librarian of the Yale
UniversityLibrary Robert W. Hill, Keeper of Manuscripts of the New
York Public Library William A. Jackson, Carolyn E. Jakeman, and the
late Mrs. Frederick Winslow, all of the Houghton Library of Harvard
vii Vill ACKNOWLEDGMENTS University St. George L. Sioussot, Chief
of the Division of Manu scripts of the Library of Congress Nora E.
Cordingley, in charge of the Theodore Roosevelt Collection at
Harvard University and the Librarians of the State Historical
Society of Wisconsin. I am greatly indebted to Agnes De Mille for
permitting me to consult her mothers manuscript life of Henry
George and for showing me pictures and other mementos of her
grandfather to Marian Bellamy Eamshaw, for reading my chapter on
Edward Bellamy and furnishing me with interesting details of her
fathers life to Abigail Adams Homans, for giving me access to the
letters of Brooks Adams to his brother Henry and for her
illuminating comments about the characters and personalities of her
uncles and to Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., for permission to
quote portions of the correspondence between his grandfather and
Brooks Adams. Short sections of this book have appeared in modified
form in The New England Quarterly, The Antioch Review, and American
Quarterly. D. A. Northampton, Mass. October 1950 CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION xi PART ONE Precursors 1. Emerson and the Progressive
Tradition 3 2. Theodore Parker The Battle of the Nineteenth Century
21 PART Two Prophetic Agitators 3 3. Henry George The Great Paradox
55 4. Edward Bellamy Village Utopian 92 5. Henry Demarest Lloyd The
Middle-Class Conscience 133 6. William Dean Howells The Gentleman
from Altruria 172 7. Thorstein Veblen Moralist and Rhetorician 208
PART THREE Latter-dayProgressives 8. Theodore Roosevelt and Brooks
Adams Pseudo-Progressives-245 9. In Retrospect 1912-1950 281 NOTES
ON SOURCES 309 INDEX 323 INTRODUCTION This is a book about American
progressives. It is also an attempt to rehabilitate the progressive
tradition, currently under attack by both liberals and
anti-liberals, and to show that progressivism was not always the
shabby thing it is now made out to be. Progressivism 5 is conceived
today either as the sentimental maunderings of the soft-minded and
the muddle-headed or as communism in disguise...
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