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6 THE COMMONWEAL November 10, 1926 of literature is in the hands of those who, in addition to having been trained...
...The work we ourselves do can only be a preparation, a getting ready, in as real a sense as the labor of Veuillot and Brunetiere was antecedent to the contemporary renaissance in France...
...6 THE COMMONWEAL November 10, 1926 of literature is in the hands of those who, in addition to having been trained through experience for their work, can be assured of a sufficient market for what they produce...
...One of our fundamental purposes is to encourage them...
...If nothing is done, the reason will have been simply plain neglect, indifference, and intellectual sterility...
...We say this the more readily because experience during the past year has shown that a number of young people can write and think very well...
...We are still realizing the fruits of this situation, but the causes no longer exist...
...The American public which dutifully professes its interest in the spiritualization of literature can now plead neither poverty nor want of educational facilities...
...The fault lies rather with historical circumstances, the effect of which was to create a literary isolation in which poet and seer might beat their "luminous wings in vain...
...Naturally enough, young people hesitated to devote themselves to effort which promised so little and seemed to mean less...
...If specifically Catholic writing in America is not yet everything it should be, the fault hardly lies with those pioneers who toiled sacrificially and died in poverty...
Vol. 5 • November 1926 • No. 1
