Counter-Currents

by Agnes Repplier

COUNTER-CURRENTS

BY

AGNES REPPLIER, Litt.D.

BOSTON AND NEW YORK

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

The Riverside Press Cambridge

1916

COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY AGNES REPPLIER

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Published April 1916

Note

These nine essays, in their original form, were published in the Atlantic Monthly during the past three years.

1. Contents

    

2. The Cost of Modern Sentiment

   1

3. Our Loss of Nerve

   33

4. Christianity and War

   63

5. Women and War

   98

6. The Repeal of Reticence

   136

7. Popular Education

   165

8. The Modest Immigrant

   197

9. Waiting

   233

10. Americanism

    260