Tyler Piccotti on Artemus Ward.

Albert Jay Nock on Artemus Ward (1924) and on Artemus Ward’s America (1934). From 1924:

“Ward is the property of an order of persons — for order is the proper word, rather than class or group, since they are found quite unassociated in any formal way, living singly or nearly so, and more or less as aliens, in all classes of our society — an order which I have characterized by using the term intelligence. If I may substitute the German word Intelligenz, it will be seen at once that I have no idea of drawing any supercilious discrimination as between, say, the clever a… waisberg.micro.blog