December 1912

Articles

• Some Misconceptions of Eugenics

  "There are few questions of greater import than those relating to the forces which are moulding the innate qualities of the human race. There is no knowledge which it is more important to have widely diffused than the knowledge of the means by which our human inheritance can be improved" 

  S.J. Holmes

• The Plunge Into the Wilderness

  The first of three excerpts from John Muir’s autobiography

  John Muir

• Van Cleve and His Friends

  Mary S. Watts

• The Drift Toward Government Ownership of Railways

  B. L. Winchell

• Letters of Charles Eliot Norton to James Russell Lowell

• Some Have Greatness Thrust Upon Them

  Lorin F. Deland

• A Revolution in Advertising

  Elizabeth C. Billings

• Tubal Cain

  Wilbur M. Urban

• Afterwards

  J. E. Richardson

• The Excitement of Friendship

  Randolph S. Bourne

• The New Science

  Samuel George Smith

• The Price of Anger

  Ellwood Hendrick

• The Valley of the Others

  Elizabeth Taylor

• Silence

  Fannie Stearns Davis

• James Longstreet

  Gamaliel Bradford Jr.

• Hungry Generations

  W. M. Gamble

• Race-Culture

  Simeon Strunsky

• My Adventures in Criticism

• Women's Honor

• Utcunque Ventus

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