Hawthorne and his Puritans -- Emerson and the moral sentiment: we are as gods -- Christians and their slaves (Harriet Beecher Stowe and others) -- Melville in the Holy Land -- Walt Whitman: I am the man -- Lincoln: the Almighty has his own purpose -- Emily Dickinson: the alone to the alone -- William James: rescuing religion -- Mark Twain: the American funnyman who put God on trial -- T. S. Eliot: the pilgrim from St. Louis -- Robert Frost: the survival of the fittest -- Faulkner: God over the South.
