... the promised irrigation water to the hundreds of homestead families in Eastern Idaho, and the Western arrogance he witnessed in Shanghai while making his way to the Philippines. The exercise of recalling his experiences among the Igorots so energized him that three days after sending the first chapter to Goode...

..., this meant an attitude of deliberate arrogance. It was said he was so sure of himself that he would have criticized even the twelve gods. What's more, he could, out of pure insolence, ridicule the very rules of the city. The chapter then looks at the area most scandalous of all, relating not to Alcibiades...