Add to ORKGAdam, the baby, and the man from Mars, as a distinguished philosopheronce observed, are the three figures to whom our western society has mostoften turned in seeking a fresh and unprejudiced appraisal of its distinctiveinstitutions. For the rest of us, most established practices are accepted uncriticallybecause long familiarity and the normative force of the actualblind us to possible alternatives. We in America have been particularlyfortunate in having received upon our shores a succession of itinerant observerswhose freshness of approach to our scenes was strengthened by avivid awareness of scenes in other plays. To the company of Las Casas,De Tocqueville, Lord Bryce, Andr6 Siegfried, and many others, not all ofwhom returned from what the...