Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vivian is a girl that everyone should adore. I can just see Vivian going barefoot, because the darling bossy cows, with the tender eyes, should not be sacrificed for human comforts. I am sure that she does not enjoy the comforts of this Modern Age of Steel (think of all the poor mules that have been sacrificed in the mines). I know that Vivian does not wear silk because men rob the poor defenseless silkworms to secure this silk. I honestly believe that Vivian lives in a tent. The trees should be left for the birds to rest and nest...
...bestiality of human mobs was gruesomely exemplified at Bombay last week, when rioting Hindus and Moham-medans stoned and slashed and disemboweled one another until the dead totaled 106 and the wounded over 600, with the seven-day-riot still going...
...human field where the theories may have consequences is in aviation. The airplane motor is operated by electricity set moving by the magneto and intensified by electro-magnetic coils. When the plane is on the ground electricity and its spark act in a definite fashion. Perhaps that fashion changes when the plane is high in the air?powerfully lifted against the earth's force of gravity and swiftly moved with or against earth's rotational force. The possibility of such change may account for some airplane accidents. Perhaps such possible changes can be foreseen, calculated, forestalled. Perhaps?not to venture...
Consequences. Albert Einstein's theories have altered human existence not at all. But they have revolutionized human understanding of existence...
...prose it is even easier Hardy, of course, would begin, and we might follow him with Doughty (also in line for his poetry) Conrad, and W. H. Hudson. Bear in mind that these are popular and "sell" and also that they are "classics"--beyond a human doubt. De Morgan is your modern Dickens and in place of Charles Lamb there is Max Beerbohm and a worthy modern equivalent he is. Follow him with James Stephens, possibly Machen, and Aldous Huxley. Hudson leads us to Cunninghame, Graham, and Shaw. For Jane Austen we shall have (let us hope) David Garnett...