... 2. that a Migratory Labour Board be created 3. that vigilante-ism and terrorism be punished. Steinbeck`s social philosophy had three roots: 1. Emerson's faith in the common man and his Protestant self reliance, 2. Whitman`s religion of the love of all man and his mass democracy 3. the philosophy of pragmatism and its emphasis on effective action we can add a fourth source to the first three ... offered by the resigned style of Chapter 9, or the description of a folk dance in chapter 23. We can observe a number of influences - The Bible, Dos Passos` `Newsreel` technique, folk idiom, Walt...

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... their beliefs. Steinbeck's social thought is based upon three strands of 19th century American philosophy: the Emersonian concept of the Oversoul, the humanism and embracing of mass democracy idealized by Walt Whitman, and the pragmatism of Henry James. When the reader is first introduced to Jim Casy, he tells Tom that "the sperit ain't in the people much no more; and worse ... ...

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