“The conviction of tragedy that rises out of his [John Dos Passos's] work is the steady protest of a sensitive democratic conscience against the tyranny and the ugliness of society, against the failure of a complete human development under industrial capitalism.” HumansSocietyDevelopmentConscienceCapitalismTragedyDemocraticConvictionTyrannySensitiveProtestSteadyUglinessHuman Development Book:ON NATIVE GROUNDS An Interpretation of Modern American Prose Literature Source: ON NATIVE GROUNDS An Interpretation of Modern American Prose Literature