by Herrymon Maurer
Pendle Hill Pamphlet #53, 1950

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There is again a tower of Babel . So great has been the flood of words that each word has lost crispness and exactness. Language has become so inflated as to lose currency. The sheer quantity of facts increases until no man can master more than some small corner of some small subject, and men begin to lack terms with which to speak to other men. Gibberish passes for sense: there are the glib nonsense-repetitions of the advertising pages and the radio, the nonsense-ravings of the hawkers of political cure-alls. (The speeches of Hitler were essentially unintelligible, but they roused enthusiasm even among German intellectuals.)

Where, where is the simplicity of Truth?