ORGANIC BODY

An Organic body consists not only of muscles but of nerves and
organs. That Social Credit HAS the best general weekly paper
in England OUGHT to be a matter of pride to social creditors
even if they don't care for " bairdingz and boedries ".
The amenities are well inside Douglas' program and a living
memorial to Orage is worth several tombstones. Aberhart
echos Orage's " no axe to grind save the truth ". For
25 years I and more I have seen British communications
impeded. A nations communications service; in the highest sense
its intelligence service is not a matter of no importance.

Fat women; obese owners; the general causes
that blunt the news and distort it are as much part
of the opposition as the exporters.

I suggest that Social Creditors try the New English
Weekly and having tried it that they then try to read the
superstitions and survivals from grandfather's time which now
adorns so plentifully the news stands.

An age of plenty means an age of improved communica
communication. It means better written papers. It means
papers wherein NONE of the news and none of the opinions are
diluted and doctored.

Plenty of the party members are too young to remember
1908; 1900; 1910; 1912 when Age was almost alone to

preach AND practice this doctrine. The English Review tried it and lasted a year and a half in that state of purity.

Old gents. complained that Orage's paper lacked coherence. Shaw found that the writers weren't run into a mould and made to confom to one sole set of opinions. AND so forth. You can not isolate economics from life. Social Credit already has ITS tradition. There are personal loyalties inside the movement. Two memorials to Orage live and funtion. The New Age and the New English Weekly. Neither prints hired opinion.

The millionaire " news OWNERS " have not left any such monument.

" Social Credit " exist for a specific political end but social creditors who read weekly papers between their hours of action wd. do well if at least to investigate the merits of the party's own publications in comparison with other papers where t is freedom of expr expression is curtailed and only a limited gamut of heresy tackled.

The Morning Post a few days ago published an admirabl article on the organization of the Kansas City Star; now owned by the men who write it. It is not the only American paper so organized; but a paper owned by its own staff may be as much bound as any other; if it has to

humour rich advertisers. A western editor wrote me."

I find I can tell the truth in ratio to the distance 
the further off geographically the more of it I can tell.
British Journalists are recommended to the recent Manifesto
of the American Newspaper Guild.

Ezra Pound
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There are plenty of old newspaper men in England who regard
truth as a luxury product; something like ermine and diamonds
that they never expected to indulge in. They have
considered it as something in the clouds; not for their
time or station. Franchement ecrire ce qu'on pense; seul
plaisir d'un ecrivain. This was a French ideal, reserved
for one only top bracket writers. That is the kind of
scarcity supposition that we are here to annihilate.

Ezra Pound

I find I can tell the truth in ratio to the distance ".
the further off geographically the more of it I can tell.
British Journalists are recommended to the recent Manifesto
of the American Newspaper Guild.

Ezra Pound

There are plenty of old newspaper men in England who regard
truth as a luxury product; something like ermine and diamonds
that they never expected to indulge in. They have
considered it as something in the clouds; not for their
time or station. Franchement ecrire ce qu'on pense; seul
plaisir d'un ecrivain. This was a French ideal, reserved
for only top bracket writers. That is the kind of
scarcity superstition that we are here to annihilate.

Ezra Pound

The world of letters will shortly be divided into idiots
who can not see the bearing of the monetary factor, and
serious writers who continue the great tradition as that
tradition is visible in Propertius, Dante, Shakespear and
(to bring in centennial celebrations) Lope de Vega.

An epic is a poem including history. There are
perhaps surviving idiots who believe a man can write without
understand his subject matter, or understand history without
regard to that enormous (and by Dante recognized) component
of power which inheres in finance.

A sound ethos, or a sound critical sense
in letters leads, as I see it, to these conclusions.
real
The thought of lives in all of its forms, and action
is thought's ultimate &/critic.

If any man's thought have a coherence, if
it have an integrity, it will be difficult for him, at
50 to begin any essay or any address to a new audience
without recapitulation, which in our time can not
find substitute in mere profession of some form of
orthodox (videlicet canned) dogma.

Neither can the full meaning of anything a
(any paragraph, any page) that a
mature man now writes be fully understood without reference
to his foregoing work (be it action in the sense of political
ethics in any of its letters).

["My meaning, no matter how simple my phrase is bound up\nwith", "Make it New", "ABC of Reading", "ABC of Economics\nImpact.", "Jefferson and/or Mussolini", "CANTOS I to XXX, 31/41, and 116/ in at least parts of\nthe poems that preced them.", "And with my edition of Fenollosa on the Chinese Written Character\nand my version of the Ta Hio of Confucius.", "A man's directio voluntatis is part of his meaning. And\nI repeat from my Rome broadcast: Intellectuals do not have\nidea, they get but the spare parts of ideas.", "An idea is true in measure as it goes into actio, and that\ngoes is a matter both of time and of mass.", "The forma mentis of the SECOND DECEMBER?", "No I will be content with the forma mentis that has been\nalive up to the second decennio.", "We have seen styles of writing pass out. We have seen\na triple Italy or an Italy HERRHERRHERRHERRHERR

We have also seen the collapse and almost complete bankruptcy
of french intellect.

In 1910 Paris was still queen of intellectual Europe. An
American wd/ and in fact had to lean from french writers.
Gourmont taught DISSOCIATION OF IDEAS.

Any thing that he taught, with special reference to belles
lettres, the world is still learning or must still learn
in re/ terminology in every subejct that concern us.

You can not have efficient communication from men who see no difference between Property and Capital ; from men who use standard to mean both a measure and a re receipt for, or an order to deliver.

The latin mediaeval culture, or the acumen of Lorenzo V alla's
Elegantia may have been lost during the triumph and
the XIXth century debauch of usury. In any case the
black filth of the XIX th century ( moral, intellectual, political
and economic ) cd/ not be eliminated until a difference
became apparent between usury and the increment of association.

As long as men swallowed Marx's super icial analysis
there was no issue. Value arises from the cultural heritage
there included & the whole congeries of mechanical inventions
and the ameliorations of agriculture.

ACADEMICISM may be defined

A. asx drift toward general statements

knowledge, while LOSING all sense of their bearing and
ingerence on life in its entirety.

( whether this be encourage by deliberate malevolence
or not/!!! as was the case with the whole of the German
philological system during our life time and our fathers').

The unaccustomed reader will not that I am proceding not
so much like a hen walking a chalk line, as like a
wheelwright
sticking spokes into the hub of a wheel.

The parts of yr/ though must be as concrete as wheel-spokes
or we are wasting each other's time.

No man will write "1 historie morale contemporaine", that
in 1935
is to say no novelist will write anything but trype, unless
he be aware of the forces shaping that "morale" and that
"histoire". (I go back at least to my first prose opusculous
to quote money is the anagke of the present world.

And from that I come up to Fenollosa's essay on the Chinese
Ie Ideogram, as a basis for METHOD.

Method in the main sense, method in THOUGHT, in writing,
in INSTRUCTION, and dividing it still further, in
teaching of literature.

All teaching being damned and
filthy if it aim not at telling the next generation what we
know in such succinctness and with such efficiency

that individuals of the next generation who have a vigor
comparable to our own, and a reasonable curiosity will
know or be easily able to know MORE than we do, by
the time they have reached our age.

For each of these present pages there is a printed " English
book or booklet to serve as footnote.

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**ИЗВЕШТАЈ** "language for registration (accurate) and communication (lucid) of thought, and the form of art, whether plastic or temporal (verbal or musical) for the heightening and deepening of perception"

this aesthetic is SOUND, it
coheres and belongs in the SAME social body. A man
(or a young student) given this aesthetic moves toward
sane economics, toward sane participation in the statal
coherence.

An education on **ИЗВЕШТАЈ** this system will not be a rickety what not, a corner cupboard of fret-work, covered with ornaments and **ИЗВЕШТАЈ** in danger of upset.

The Kleinstadt, provincialism in pejorative sense shows in
inferiority complex, and fear to LOOK at one's stock.
strong

A strong people does not have to pretend, it does not
shun comparisons.

A people really wanting to come to life in wirting dhd/

or even wanting to know its own literature, will want to know where that literature rises above foreign writing and *WHERE IT DOES NOT*.

A generation brought up in ignorance of these relations will reach its maxima.

No nation has a monopoly of the world's art and letters. The Italian component of WORLD LITERATURE can stand on its real feet, it does not need stilts. Up to the present Italian writing (16 June, anno XIII) I have found one tennis player and no Italian authors who will look the facts in the eye or who will look me in the eye during my statement of a schema of Instruction which will remove Italian students from handicap when discussing their literature with Frenchmen and American Americans.

The OBJECT of any sane university education is to fit the student for life in a given time and place, as distinct from loading him up with a lot of dead ideology.

The Era Fascista signifies a break with a dead paideuma (in Frobenius' sense of that word) – a fixed, stuffed, varnised set of idea elaborated in the black age of usury.

The XIXth century in its plastic manifestations was one of the squalidest known to mankind. Only by escape from the forma mentis of the XIXth century was the Era Fascista possible.

The concurrent urges to a new era are open to study. As to my own qualifications either for HUMANITY in those urges inherence or for HUMANITY or for SUPERSITY estimating them I offer 25 years published work, to any examining committee.

The XIXth century university education was designed, both consciously and unconsciously to UNFIT the university graduate for understanding of and, then thence more forcibly, for participation in world affairs.

I had six years of university and needed ten to efface the WORST scars and deformations. Most of my contem oraries did not survive at all, their dead husks can be found in numberless <u>cathedra</u>, still shuffling dead ideologies.

There is The proof/that Italy fared no better in the as can be ascertained by a census of abstainers. I mean the university trained Italians of

of the new forma mentis.

Right on through the first decennio they persisted in
dead ideologies. I continually shock m italian of my own
age ( 50 ) by poking into subjects where were no part of
an Italian scholars refinement.

My reasons for judging the limits of the Italic component
in WORLD LITERATURE , are as I said, exposed, in former
volumes,

As specific recommendation to the Minsitry of Education
I here offer the nude results of laboratory patience,

I.

All instruction in English whether in low school or university
shd/ begin with Ogden's Basic English. There is no reason
why Italy shd/ receive the results of this serious
engin eersing ten years of one year after Hungary or
any other country.

are
Odgen and Richard's authors of " the meaning of Meaning
and Od Ogden a very erudite student of the history of
philosophy. They have weeded out English until there remained
a vol vocabulary of 850 words which will express
nearly all needful communications, even of very complex nature.
Plus, naturally, special technical vocabular es for different
branches of science.

This is no mere limited business vocabulary. Literary
works have been translated into it. Essays have
been written directly in this medium.

It is not *merely* a convenience for the foreign traveler or
commercial agent wanting to pass through England or
the U.S.A. or carry on commercial correspondence.

I have recommended it as DISCIPLINE to young writers, as mean
means of getting rid of irrelevant ornament, and ac
ascertaining their own intentions.

If the system is new,¹ do not imply that it has
yet reached its maximum development. In fact Stanley Nott
(69 Grafton St. London W.I.) is undertaking an "Ideographic Ser
Series" under my direction pa designed in part to criticise
Ogden's work. But that work is already available, and presents
immense advantages to all foreigners with sufficient
acumen to make immediate use of it.

It might be noted that the Duce's english
speech was translated into **HHH HHH HHH HHH** "Basic", with
very few changes.

Oge Ogden's work and my own has been entirely independent
so that the concordances have an impersonal corroborative
value, such as it is, and they are.

II. "repeating my belief, that the student shd/ NOT be
loaded up with material that he will later have to discard
I give, without deference, my own schema of a SOLID
base for ITALIC STUDY, one that is which will not place

with foreign specialists. none of whom will stand any nonsense about AHHHHHH Petrarch, Ariosto, Tasso, MAHHHHHH I Promesi Sposi, or even Giovanni Verga.

The whole criticism during the age of usry aimed at effacing the distic distinction betenn the FIRST category and the others.

The root quality of the classic is " un eterna freschezza ".

In find in fact, by accident a profession of a year ago faith written in my bad italian for a mediocre editor who critical asked for 12 articles and was afraid to print what he got.

Si io credo alla possibilita d'un risveglio ovvero rinascita della poesia, o della letteratura italiana MA solamente a condizione d'un taglio netto..... un cambiamento totale dell'instruzione/Programma di BONIFICA