Race Questions, Provincialism, and Other American Problems: Expanded Edition

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Notes  introduction to race questions, provincialism, and other american problems Scott L. Pratt 1. Josiah Royce, ‘‘What Should Be the Attitude of Teachers of Philosophy Towards Religion?’’ International Journal of Ethics 13 (1902–03), p. 177. 2. Josiah Royce, ‘‘An American Thinker on the War,’’ Hibbert Journal 14 (1915–16):268. 3. Ibid. 4. Ibid. 5. Josiah Royce, The Philosophy of Loyalty (1908; Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1995), 9. 6. Ibid, 25. 7. Ibid., 10. 8. Royce, Josiah Royce’s Late Writings: A Collection of Unpublished and Scattered Works, vol. 2, ed. Frank M. Oppenheim, S.J. (Bristol, England: Thoemmes Press, 2001), 138. 9. Josiah Royce, Race Questions, Provincialism, and Other American Problems (New York: Macmillan Company, 1908), 147. 10. Ibid., 152. 11. Josiah Royce, The Sources of Religious Insight (1912; Washington, D.C.: Catholic University Press of America, 2001), 203. 12. Royce, Race Questions, Provincialism, and Other American Problems, 156. 13. One can be mistaken about whether a cause is really one that fosters loyalty. The principle of loyalty to loyalty requires that one also be prepared to recognize when she has made a wrong choice and correct it as best she can in accordance with loyalty to loyalty. {  }  notes 14. Royce, California, From the Conquest in  to the Second Vigilance Committee in San Francisco: A Study of American Character (1886; New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948), 221–22. 15. Ella Lyman Cabot Collection, A-139 Radcliffe Collection, 1892 Notebook [320v], March 14,1892. The quotation was located by John J. Kaag, AAS Fellow, 2007–08. 16. Royce, Race Questions, Provincialism, and Other American Problems, 38. 17. Royce, The Philosophy of Loyalty, 55. 18. Josiah Royce, The Problem of Christianity (1913; Washington, D.C.: Catholic University Press of America, 2001), 41; also, his statement ‘‘Loyalty, in the individual, is his love for an united community, expressed in a life of devotion to that community,’’ 128; also see Josiah Royce’s Late Writings, ed. Oppenheim, 5. 19. The Problem of Christianity, 254. ‘‘A community,’’ he says, ‘‘is not a mere collection of individuals. It is a sort of live unit, that has organs, as the body of an individual has organs. A community grows or decays, is healthy or diseased, is young or aged, much as an individual member of the community possesses such characters. Each of the two, the community or the individual member, is as much a live creature as the other’’ (Ibid., 80). 20. Royce, The Sources of Religious Insight, 198–99. 21. Royce, Josiah Royce’s Late Writings, ed. Oppenheim, 7. 22. Royce, Josiah Royce’s Late Writings, ed. Oppenheim, 7. 23. Ibid. 24. Royce, The Hope of the Great Community (1916, New York: Macmillan ), 129. 25. Royce, Race Questions, Provincialism, and Other American Problems, 56. 26. W. E. B. Du Bois, Souls of Black Folk (1903), in Writings (New York: Library of America, 1986); see the conclusion of the first essay, ‘‘Of Spiritual Strivings,’’ in particular. 27. Originally given as an address at the University of Iowa and initially published in the Boston Evening Transcript; see Ignas K. Skrupskelis, Annotated Bibliography of the Published Works of Josiah Royce, in The Basic Writings of Josiah Royce, vol. 2, ed. John J. McDermott (New York: Fordham University Press, 2005), 1205. 28. Royce, Race Questions, Provincialism, and Other American Problems, 77. Royce introduced the notion of wise provincialism in The Philosophy of Loyalty, 114–15. notes  29. Race Questions, Provincialism, and Other American Problems, 74. 30. Ibid., 76. 31. Royce, Race Questions, Provincialism, and Other American Problems, 77. 32. Royce responded in part to the work of Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, 2nd ed. (Marietta, Ga.: Larlin Corporation, 1910). 33. Royce, Race Questions, Provincialism, and Other American Problems, 81. 34. Royce, Race Questions, Provincialism, and Other American Problems, 104; this essay was originally an address given in 1899 and, according to Ignas Skrupskelis, was probably used as a ‘‘stock lecture’’ (Skrupskelis, Annotated Bibliography, 1209). It is interesting that, despite its early composition, it nevertheless serves as a clear application of the philosophy of loyalty. 35. See Michael McGerr, A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, – (New York: Free Press, 2003), for a survey of these movements. 36. Royce, Race Questions, Provincialism, and Other American Problems, 104. 37. Ibid., 105. 38. Ibid. 39. See Lippmann, Public Opinion (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company , 1922). 40...