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The Art Of The Moving Picture

CHAPTER XVIII
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Beauty is not directly pious, but does more civilizing in its proper hour than many sermons or laws.
The world seems to be in the hands of adventurers.

Why not this for the adventure of the American architects?
If something akin to this plan does not come to pass through photoplay propaganda, it means there is no American builder with the blood of Julius Caesar in his veins.

If there is the old brute lust for empire left in any builder, let him awake.

The world is before him.
As for the other Utopians, the economist, the physician, the puritan, as soon as the architects have won over the photoplay people, let these others take sage counsel and ensnare the architects.

Is there a reform worth while that cannot be embodied and enforced by a builder's invention?
A mere city plan, carried out, or the name or intent of a quasi-public building and the list of offices within it may bring about more salutary economic change than all the debating and voting imaginable.


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