Prelude: These strange minds.
Hawthorne and his puritans.
Emerson and the moral sentiment: we are as gods.
Christians and their slaves (Harriet Beecher Stowe and others).
Melville in the Holy Land.
Walt Whitman: I am the man.
Lincoln: the Almighty has his own purposes.
Emily Dickinson: The alone to the alone.
William James: rescuing religion.
Mark Twain: the American funnyman who put God on trial.
T. S. Eliot: the pilgrim from St. Louis.
Robert Frost: the survival of the fittest.
Faulkner: God over the South.
