Contents 
4. THE MORNING OF BELIEF: MEDIEVAL 
MENTALITIES IN A MODERN WORLD 141 
The Image of Childhood and the Childhood of the Race 144 
Medieval Sincerity: Genteel and Robust 149 
Medieval Vitality: The Evotic Union of Sacred and Profane 160 
The Medieval Unconscious: Therapy and Protest 167 
5. THE RELIGION OF BEAUTY: CATHOLIC FORMS 
AND AMERICAN CONSCIOUSNESS 183 
The Rise of Catholic Taste: Cultural Authority and Personal 
Regeneration 185 
Art, Ritual, and Belief: The Protestant Dilemma, 192 
American Anglo-Catholicism: Legitimation and Prolest 198 
The Poles of Anglicanism: Cram and Scudder 209 
6. FROM PATRIARCHY TO NIRVANA: PATTERNS 
OF AMBIVALENCE 217 
The Problem of Victorian Ambivalence: Sources and Solutions 
The Lotus and the Father: Bigelow, Lowell, Lodge 225 
William Sturgis Bigelow 225 
Percival Lowell 284 
George Cabot Lodge 237 
Aesthetic Catholicism and ‘Feminine Values: Norton, Hall, Brooks 241 
Charles Eliot Norton .243 
G. Stanley Hall 247 
Van Wyck Brooks 251 
7. FROM FILIAL LOYALTY TO RELIGIOUS 
PROTEST: HENRY ADAMS 261 
Early Manhood: The Meandering Track of the Family Go-Cart 263 
Husband, Historian, Novelist: Adams’s Crisis of Generativily 266 
The Anlimodern Quest: From Niagara to the Virgin 270 
Between Father and Mother, I: The Virgin, The Dynamo, and 
the Angelic Doctor 279 
Between Father and Mother, II: The Antimodern Modernist 286 
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