The So-called Human Race

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Taylor Bert Leston. The So-called Human Race

Foreword

The So-Called Human Race

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Gilded Fairy Tales

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The Delectable River

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Alice in Cartoonland

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The Witch’s Holiday

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The London Busman Story

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The Magic Kit

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Mr. Dubbe’s Program Study Class

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Vacation Travels

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Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

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All these contributors, as well as many other persons who existed independently of the “Line,” lived in the corrective fear of the “Cannery,” that capacious receptacle which yawned for the trite word and the stereotyped phrase. Our language, to B. L. T., was an honest, living growth: deadwood, whether in thought or in the expression of thought, never got by, but was marked for the burning. The “Cannery,” with its numbered shelves and jars, was a deterrent indeed, and anyone who ventured to relieve himself as “Vox Populi” or as a conventional versifier, did well to walk with care.

Over all these aids, would-be or actual, presided the Conductor himself, furnishing a steady framework by his own quips, jingles and philosophizings, and bringing each day’s exhibit to an ordered unity. The Column was more than the sum of its contributors. It was the sum of units, original or contributed, that had been manipulated and brought to high effectiveness by a skilled hand and a nature wide in its sympathies and in its range of interests.

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“Woman Lights 103 Candles With One Match.”

Huh! Helen, with one match, lit the topless towers of Ilium.

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