Abstract
Taking as its starting point Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America, and with reference to H.G. Wells's The Future in America , this essay considers the difficulty of James's prose in The American Scene . It takes up James's reference to Plato in a letter to Edith Wharton and, by way of suggesting how James might be read and understood, it deals in particular with certain aspects of the chapter on Philadelphia, and ends by suggesting how unwilling America was to hear him or to honour his intentions.
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