Mao Tse-Tung, 157
	Marcuse, Herbert, 26, 28, 29
	Marie Antoinette, 129, 130, 131, 227 -28
	Marinetti, F. T.: on futurist art, 300
	Marr, David: on Emerson, 548
	Marshall, Alfred, 72
	Marshall, John: on Locke, 198, 199 n.
	Marshall, Thurgood: on racism, 497
	Martin, Anne: on Nevada, 418
	Marx, Karl, 28, 48, 71, 135, 141, 144, 231, 334, 458, 460 ; on destruction of patriarchy, I37-38; on historical stages, 151 -55; on individualism, 152 ; on petty proprietorship, 151 ; on progressive character of bourgeois society, 150 -52; on rural life, 86
	Marxism, 28 -30, 65, 148 -58, 159, 197, 209, 210, 2I2, 216, 220, 221, 315, 317, 318, 320, 328, 331, 333, 335, 336, 377, 404 n., 449 n., 451, 452, 458, 511, 525, 543 ; and populism, 195 -96 n., 460
	mass culture, 30
	Masses, The (New York), 339
	mass media, 523 -24
	mass society, 327 -28
	Mathews, Shailer, 380 n., 385 n.; on progress, 381
	Matthiessen, F. O., 114
	Mauldin, Bill: on "scared rabbit generation," 110
	Maurras, Charles, 300
	Mauve Decade, The (Beer), 109
	May, Henry: on Edwards, 259 n.
	Maybeck, Bernard, 114
	Mayer, Arno: on lower middle class, 458
	Mayhew, Jonathan: on "ignorant multitudes," 259
	Means, Gardiner, 510
	Melting Pot, The (Zangwill), 354
	Melville, Herman, 262, 352 ; on Emerson, 265 ; on primitive society, 96
	memory, 184, 228 ; distinguished from custom, 131 -32, 133, 239, 365 ; in Enlightenment thought, 123 -24; see also nostalgia
	Mencken, H. L., 421, 423 -24, 426, 430, 432, 434, 443, 457, 555 ; against democracy, 361 ; on "civilized minority," 416 ; on Maryland, 417 ; on Middletown, 424 -25; on "Sahara" of the South, 417 -18
	Merriam, George S.: on Emerson, 245
	Merz, Charles, 363
	"Metropolis and Mental Life, The" (Simmel), 145 -48
	Meyer, Donald: on Niebuhr and Rauschenbusch, 380 n.
	Michael, John: on Emerson, 548
	Middle America, 17, 36 -37
	middle class, 192, 205, 211, 223, 321, 506 ; decline of, 169, 479 -85, 492, 508 ; see also petty bourgeoisie
	middle-class morality, 394 -95
	Middletown (Lynds), 104, 424, 425
	Middletown in Transition (Lynds), 425 -26
	Mighty Atom, The (Corelli), 92
	Miles, Michael: on "backlash" against new left, 477
	Mill, John Stuart, 71, 88 ; on "culture of feelings," 165 ; on spirit of the age, 87
	Miller, John T.: on republicanism, 134 n.
	Miller, Perry, 353 ; on Edwards, 255, 256
	Mills, C. Wright, 26
	Milton, John, 15, 233 -34, 235, 237, 250
	Mind of the South, The (Cash), 443
	Minnegerode, Meade, 109
	Mitchell, Margaret, 114
	Moby Dick (Melville), 96
	Modern Corporation and Private Property, The (Berle and Means), 510
	modernization, 35, 134 n., 155 -67, 210, 220, 466, 471, 539 -40
	Moffett, Toby: on "suburban" liberalism, 507
	Mohammed, 232
	Mohl, Robert von: on state and society, 140 n.
	Montaigne, 262
	Montesquieu, 51, 172
	Montgomery, David: on populism, 220 -21, 222
	Montgomery bus boycott, 405, 406
	Monti, Daniel: on school desegregation, 504 n.
	Moody, Samuel: on new divinity, 258
	Moore, Barrington, Jr.: on conservative modernization, 156 -57; on dying classes, 2I0; on progress, 43
	Moore, G. E.: on beauty, 74 n.
	"Moral Argument against Calvinism, The" (Channing), 260 -61
	"Moral Equivalent of War, The" (James), 300-303
	Moral Man and Immoral Society (Niebuhr), 370, 374, 376, 377, 382, 387
	Morgan, Edmund: on Puritan tribalism, 258
	Morgan, Lewis Henry, 140 ; on democracy, I35
	Morris, William, 135, 184, 319, 320, 328, 346, 348

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