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