Writing during the First World War, Repplier takes aim at the comfortable pieties of her day: a wave of soft sentiment she thinks has replaced courage, the claim that Christianity forbids war, the notion that women will end it, the new frankness about sex, and the American faith in popular education and the immigrant.
Witty, contrarian and still provoking, these essays show why Repplier was counted among America’s finest essayists. Download the free EPUB.