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Modernism. To the Editor of The Guardian
- Johns Hopkins University Press
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Sir, – By an accident I failed to see your issue of March 29 until a day or two ago. I was of course flattered to see a sentence of mine quoted in a letter from Mr. T. J. Wood, but considerably surprised to observe the use to which it was put.
I have no grievance against Mr. Wood for putting his own interpretation upon my sentence. A sentence once printed must stand upon its own feet, and bear the responsibility for any ambiguity lurking in its construction. But if this can happen within a few months of publication, what will happen in a hundred years? The future historian from Antipodes may set me down as a contemporary of Mrs. Humphry Ward, or as a zealous disciple of Dr. Benjamin Jowett.