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In that text, the Autocrat does almost all of the talking and the other characters function as objects of identification or of positive and negative cathexis for the leader: the disruptive and playful yet ultimately supportive young clerk John is the Autocrat’s adolescent alter-ego; the old gentleman is the benign presence of goodwilled senescence; the schoolmistress is the Autocrat’s romantic object; the stiff lady in Bombazine is her negative; and the divinity student represents the orthodox evangelical Calvinism that Holmes rejected.
Yet if Holmes has something significant to offer contemporary discussions of American identity, it is his emphasis on freedom of conscience and existential self-determination as core values, and his acknowledgment that they cannot become operative without respect for the right of each individual to determine their own basic response to life. The idea that each person’s experience is particular and unfathomable, and that they are the only one who should legitimately decide their ultimate commitments is alien to contemporary invasive culture in which incessant advertising, erosion of privacy, and myriad forms of evangelism are taken for granted.
If we outgrow all that we love”) (93). The reflection on growth leads into a discourse on the “race of life,” first imagined as a sailing regatta and then as a horse race, at which point old age and death intrude decisively. The sailing race ends for the participants when “the black steam-tug with the skeleton arms” takes them in tow (94). In the horse race, the contenders drop out over the decades, until those who remain at three score and ten stumble to the finish line: “Who is ahead? Ahead? What!