Literature In The New Century
_ [This paper was read on September 24th, 1904, in the section of Belles-lettres of the International Congress of the Arts and Sciences, held at St. Louis.]
There is no disguising the difficulty of any attempt to survey the whole field of literature as it is disclosed before us now at the opening of a new century； and there is no denying the danger of any effort to declare the outlook in the actual present and the prospect in the immediate future. How is it possible to project our vision, to foresee whither the current is bearing us, to anticipate the rocks ahead and the shallows whereon our bark may be beached?
But one reflection is as obvious as it is helpful. The problems of literature are not often merely I literary； and, in so far as literature is an honest attempt to express life,--as it always has been at the moments of highest achievement,--the problems of literature must have an intimate relation to the problems which confront us insisten

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