No tribunal is able with justice to mete out punishment in any individual
case, for probably the same degree of guilt does not attach to two men in
the violation of the same statute.
It is purely an economic and educational problem, and must rest upon the
same principles that govern in any successful industry, or in education,
and that we recognize in the conduct of life. That little progress has
been made is due to public indifference to a vital question and to the
action of sentimentalists, who, in their philanthropic zeal; fancy that a
radical reform can come without radical discipline. We are largely
wasting our energies in petty contrivances instead of striking at the
root of the evil.
LITERARY COPYRIGHT
It is the habit of some publishing houses, not of all, let me distinctly
say, to seek always notoriety, not to nurse and keep before the public
mind the best that has been evolved from time to time, but to offer
always something new. The year's flooring is threshed off and the floor
swept to make room for a fresh batch. Effort eventually ceases for the
old and approved, and is concentrated on experiments. This is like the
conduct of a newspaper. It is assumed that the public must be startled
all the time.
Consider first the author, and I mean the author, and not the mere
craftsman who manufactures books for a recognized market.
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