Vast Is The Power Of Cities To

A Village In A Country Which Is Taking Pains To Become Altogether Standardized And Pure, Which Aspires To Succeed Victorian England As The Chief Mediocrity Of The World, Is No Longer Merely Provincial, No Longer Downy And Restful In Its Leaf-shadowed Ignorance. It Is A Force Seeking To Conquer The Earth. Sure Of Itself, It Bullies Other Civilizations, As A Traveling Salesman In A Brown Derby Conquers The Wisdom Of China And Tacks Advertisements Of Cigarettes Over Arches For Centuries Dedicated To The Sayings Of Confucius.

If Travel Were So Inspiring And Informing A Business ... Then The Wisest Men In The World Would Be Deck Hands On Tramp Steamers.

Every Compulsion Is Put Upon Writers To Become Safe, Polite, Obedient, And Sterile.

Our American Professors Like Their Literature Clear And Cold And Pure And Very Dead.

Now Is A Fact That Cannot Be Dodged.