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The innate contrariness of things seemed to be blocking all his plans. Meanwhile we find Lovell drifting off into commercialism. That is to say, Barabbas-like, he had turned publisher. Gadzooks! What would you have a man with a wife and baby do? Live on moonshine well, well, well! Death claimed poor Lovell before he could make a success either of commerce or of art.
Yes: to-day the iron horse has searched the country through east and west, north and south bringing with it Commercialism, whose god is Jerry, and who studs the hills with stucco and garrotes the streams with the girder. Bringing, too, into every nook and corner fashion and chatter, the tailor-made gown and the eyeglass.
Speculation became madness; and riotous commercialism had its little hour of strut and rave. Then the bubble burst, and all that the boom had promised fell to nothingness.
This insures a wider distribution, but what is its effect upon the quality of literature? Is it your observation that the writer for a syndicate, on solicitation for a price or an order for a certain kind of work, produces as good quality as when he works independently, uninfluenced by the spirit of commercialism? The question is a serious one for the future of literature.
And this was the consistent Nemesis of all poor George's thrift and cunning, of his determination to carry the buy-cheap-and-sell-dear commercialism, in which he had been brought up, into every act of life! Did I rejoice? No; all revenge, all spite had been scourged out of me. I mourned for him as for a brother, till the thought flashed across me Lillian was free.
And so thoroughly did he learn the speech and thought of triumphant commercialism, and the ideals of material prosperity, that the picture of a lone black boy poring over a French grammar amid the weeds and dirt of a neglected home soon seemed to him the acme of absurdities. One wonders what Socrates and St. Francis of Assisi would say to this.
Suckin' I mean helpin' people an' fightin' an' all that. I wun't mind doin' it an' you could be my squire." "Yes," said Ginger slowly, "I'd thought of doin' it, but I'd thought of you bein' the squire." "Well," said William after a pause, "let's be squires in turn. You first," he added hastily. "Wot'll you give me if I'm first?" said Ginger, displaying again the base commercialism of his age.
Modern commercialism, already invading China at many points through the medium of the treaty-ports, was a force which in the long run could not be denied.
I know of only four ways to hasten the time when commercialism will cease to be a reproach to our papers. First. The papers can devote themselves to getting so extensive a circulation that they can ignore the clamor of the advertisers. But this implies a certain truckling to popularity, and the best editors will chafe under such restrictions. Second. The papers can become endowed.
He laughed a little, boyishly, as he stood looking down at her. "Sometimes I can't make you out," he said. "You've changed a good deal since I married you." She was silent. But the thought occurred to her that a complete absorption in commercialism was not developing. "If you can manage it, Honora," he added with an attempt at lightness, "I wish you'd have a little dinner soon, and ask Brent.
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