The Future in America: A Search After Realities

CHAPTER I

THE PROPHETIC HABIT OF MIND

(_At a writing-desk in Sandgate_)

I

The Question

"Are you a Polygamist?"

"Are you an Anarchist?"

The questions seem impertinent. They are part of a long paper of interrogations I must answer satisfactorily if I am to be regarded as a desirable alien to enter the United States of America. I ...