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"Essays of an Americanist" by Daniel G. Brinton is a collection of essays written in the late 19th century. The work explores various themes regarding American culture, history, and society from an introspective and critical perspective. Readers can expect a thoughtful examination of the evolving identity of America, influenced by Brinton's views on anthropology and philosophy. The opening of the work presents an intricate discussion of literature and the arts, reflecting on the contemporary landscape of theater and narrative. Brinton addresses the successes and failures of specific playwrights and theater productions, emphasizing the significance of genuine artistic expression over commercial success. The initial essays also touch upon societal issues, the complexities of human relationships, and the struggle between tradition and modernity, setting a reflective tone for the essays that follow. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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The word “Essays” appears on the title of this book in the sense in
which old Montaigne employed it—attempts, endeavors. The articles which
make up the volume have been collected from many scattered sources, to
which I have from time to time contributed them, for the definite
purpose of endeavoring to vindicate certain opinions about debated
subjects concerning the ancient population of the American continent.

In a number of points, as for example in the antiquity of man upon this
continent, in the specific distinction of an American race, in the
generic similarity of its languages, in recognizing its mythology as
often abstract and symbolic, in the phonetic character of some of its
graphic methods, in believing that its tribes possessed considerable
poetic feeling, in maintaining the absolute autochthony of their
culture—in these and in many other points referred to in the following
pages I am at variance with most modern anthropologists; and these
essays are to show more fully and connectedly than could their separate
publication, what are my grounds for such opinions.

There is a prevailing tendency among ethnologists of to-day to underrate
the psychology of savage life. This error arises partly from an
unwillingness to go beyond merely physical investigations, partly from
judging of the ancient condition of a tribe by that of its modern and
degenerate representatives, partly from inability to speak its tongue
and to gain the real sense of its expressions, partly from preconceived
theories as to what a savage might be expected to know and feel. As
against this error I have essayed to show that among very rude tribes we
find sentiments of a high character, proving a mental nature of
excellent capacity in certain directions.

Several of the Essays have not previously

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