UNIT 1 1
TEXTⅠ NeatPeople vs.Sloppy People 1
TEXT Ⅱ Private Language,Public Language 12
UNIT 2 18
TEXTⅠ Ambulance Girl 18
TEXT Ⅱ Struggling for Sanity 30
UNIT 3 35
TEXT Ⅰ Pain Is Not the Ultimate Enemy 35
TEXTⅡ A Crime of Compassion 47
UNIT 4 51
TEXTⅠ Oxford 51
TEXTⅡ The Atrophy of Social Life 65
UNIT 5 77
TEXTⅠ Conservatives and Liberals 77
TEXTⅡ American Manners 89
UNIT 6 95
TEXTⅠ On the Art of Living with Others 95
TEXTⅡ WhyWeHate 109
UNIT 7 117
TEXTⅠ French and English 117
TEXTⅡ Assimilation and Ethnicity 130
UNIT 8 137
TEXTⅠ IfPicasso Were a Programmer 137
TEXTⅡ The Decline of theKnowledge Factory：WhyOur College Must Change 152
UNIT 9 160
TEXTⅠ A Statement to My People on the Eve ofWar 160
TEXT Ⅱ Blood,Toil,Sweat and Tears 173
UNIT 10 177
TEXT Ⅰ Chinese Humanism 177
TEXT Ⅱ The Doctrine of the Golden Mean 188
TEXT 11 195
TEXT Ⅰ Mr,Preble Gets Rid of His Wife 195
TEXT Ⅱ Cluney McFarrar's Hardtack 208
UNIT 12 213
TEXT Ⅰ The Artist in America 213
TEXTⅡ Carlyle 227
UNIT 13 234
TEXT Ⅰ On Self-Respect 234
TEXT Ⅱ The Self in Literature 248
TEXT 14 256
TEXT Ⅰ The Two Cultures 256
TEXT Ⅱ Racism and Culture 271
GLOSSARY 276