Let us hope that our new picture-alphabets can take on richness and significance, as time goes on, without losing their literal values.

They may develop into something more all-pervading, yet more highly wrought, than any written speech.
Languages when they evolve produce stylists, and we will some day distinguish the different photoplay masters as we now delight in the separate tang of O.Henry and Mark Twain and Howells.

When these are ancient times, we will have scholars and critics learned in the flavors of early moving picture traditions with their histories of movements and schools, their grammars, and anthologies.
Now some words as to the Anglo-Saxon language and its relation to pictures.

In England and America our plastic arts are but beginning.
Yesterday we were preeminently a word-civilization.

England built her mediaeval cathedrals, but they left no legacy among craftsmen.