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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.com76THE EDUCATION OF AYN RAND, 1905–1943Paterson to be a boon companion. She left Frank behind in New Yorkand spent the weekend in Connecticut. The two women stayed awake“the whole first night, ‘til seven in the morning—we saw the sunlight—talking philosophy and politics. And of course I was delighted with herfor that reason.” 20 Words and thoughts flowed easiest for Rand in themidnight hours, which she usually spent alone, buried in thought. Thatshe so happily spent this time with Paterson, or “Pat” as Rand was nowcalling her, testified to the fast bond that grew between the pair. It wasthe first of many long talks that came to define their friendship.Especially in the beginning, these conversations were decidedly onesided.Paterson spoke and Rand listened. Educated only through highschool, Paterson was nonetheless widely read, and friends recall theyounger Rand literally “sitting at the master’s feet” as Paterson discussedAmerican history. 21 Paterson was working on a lengthy nonfiction treatisethat would express her political views and had developed a commandinggrasp of world history and economics that she gladly sharedwith Rand. She was an encyclopedia of knowledge. Rand would proposea topic—the Supreme Court, for example—and Paterson would holdforth for hours.Like the other libertarians Rand met during this time, Patersondrew from an older tradition to make her case for limited governmentand individualism. Spencer was one of her favorites, and her columnbrimmed with references to his ideas. She was also taken by the conceptof the status society versus the contract society, an idea first set forthby the British jurist and historian Sir Henry Maine but given legs bySpencer and later Sumner. 22 According to this theory, Western societieshad evolved from a feudal system, in which relationships betweenindividuals were determined by their status, to societies in which relationshipswere determined by contract. Although Maine was a Burkeanconservative who believed firmly in ties of tradition and society, inAmerican hands his idea of contract quickly became shorthand fora fluid, individualistic society that encouraged personal autonomy.Thinkers like Paterson interpreted Maine’s ideas to mean that the NewDeal betokened a return to the status society, or “rebarbarization.”Although she profited from the work of older and more obscure thinkers,as a prominent columnist and reviewer Paterson was well versed incontemporary intellectual debates. Where Rand spoke of “organization,”