I have indeed found it interesting sometimes to ask myself, taking the race element into especial consideration, in what particular quarters of America where I have lectured I have found the keenest interest in books and the most marked tendency to take note of the particular books I recommend. I think I would say that in the cities of Iowa I have found the greatest interest in poetry, and among the radical Jewish groups in Greater New York the greatest interest in philosophy. In Alabama, Georgia, Mississipi and Louisiana, lectures of my kind are taken as 'works of art' in themselves, and apparently enjoyed in a sort of 'art-for-art's-sake' spirit, quite independent of any definite cultural propaganda.