We Are A Nation Of 20 Million

Love Of Truth, Ordinary Common Truth Recognizable To Everyone, Is The Ruling Passion Of The Novel.

In Verity We Are The Poor. This Humanity We Would Claim For Ourselves Is The Legacy, Not Only Of The Enlightenment, But Of The Thousands And Thousands Of European Peasants And Poor Townspeople Who Came Here Bringing Their Humanity And Their Sufferings With Them. It Is The Absence Of A Stable Upper Class That Is Responsible For Much Of The Vulgarity Of The American Scene. Should We Blush Before The Visitor For This Deficiency?

You Mustn't Force Sex To Do The Work Of Love Or Love To Do The Work Of Sex.

The Famous Florentine Elegance, Which Attracts Tourists To The Shops On Via Tornabuoni And Via Della Vigna Nuova, Is Characterized By Austerity Of Line, Simplicity, Economy Of Effect.

Sex Annihilates Identity, And The Space Given To Sex In Contemporary Novels Is An Avowal Of The Absence Of Character.