Eastman, Max, 1883-1969 · New York : A.A. Knopf · leaf 144
gh all these hideous onslaughts a veritablepower of expression, such as perhaps never stood atthe command of any other people. I quote fromJacob Grimm. In wealth, good sense and closenessof structure, no other of the languages at this dayspoken deserves to be compared with it. But if thecontrolling… … SIMPLIFIED SPELLING 143 of the earth do not begin wisely by making an as-sault upon its wealth.* The impulse of ordinary childlike people is to clingto that thing which is not good for something, butgood in itself. And that is why I believe that theartistic interest will reform the reformers. A few…
