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Jefferson Refused To Pin His Hopes On The Occasional Success Of Honest And Unambitious Men; On The Contrary, The Great Danger Was That Philosophers Would Be Lulled Into Complacence By The Accidental Rise Of A Franklin Or A Washington. Any Government Which Made The Welfare Of Men Depend On The Character Of Their Governors Was An Illusion.

The Cities Of Italy Are Now Deluged With Droves Of These Creatures [tour Groups], For They Never Separate, And You See Them, Forty In Number, Pouring Along A Street With Their Director - Now In Front, Now At The Rear, Circling Them Like A Sheep Dog - And Really The Process Is As Like Herding As May Be.

Of All The Nations In The World, The United States Was Built In Nobody's Image. It Was The Land Of The Unexpected, Of Unbounded Hope, Of Ideals, Of Quest For An Unknown Perfection. It Is All The More Unfitting That We Should Offer Ourselves In Images. And All The More Fitting That The Images Which We Make Wittingly Or Unwittingly To Sell America To The World Should Come Back To Haunt And Curse Us.

The Force Of The Advertising Word And Image Dwarfs The Power Of Other Literature In The 20th Century.

The Most Refined Skills Of Color Printing, The Intricate Techniques Of Wide-angle Photography, Provide Us Pictures Of Trivia Bigger And More Real Than Life. We Forget That We See Trivia And Notice Only That The Reproduction Is So Good. Man Fulfils His Dream And By Photographic Magic Produces A Precise Image Of The Grand Canyon. The Result Is Not That He Adores Nature Or Beauty The More. Instead He Adores His Camera - And Himself.