Show Try Anything Once J Theory Assailed V V The radical experimenter in or in life lite will not tolerate tolerate- one fixed beliefs on the part of anyOne any any- In the February Century Henry Seidel Canby assails the try anything anything anything any- any thing once spirit and tho the policy of ot experiment for tor experiments experiment's eak sake eake In current literature Speaking of ot this candid experimenter he says He laughs at all certainty and andI cond condemns n all N principle I To be d d'- d' Cl I with I him Is to be damned n The rhe an n thinks thinka it a heino hei hei- no Us sin to refrain from Ing any strong desire or or principle or 01 to subdue your ego Instead of expanding It or to refrain retrain from leaving leaving- a II wife ite you no longer be be- a avore ore In a dozen recent books one is made to feel that you yop must not be too moral must not control your passions must not sacrifice sac sac- rince yourself for others must not love hove your neighbor or even your family quarter one-quarter as much as you do yourself And this Is a corollary to a a. belief bellet in Unrestricted and au all Important In due measure experiment is the soul of creation but In excess It Is Its mete and bound The realists like lk Zola who trod eagerly upon the heels of or the nineteenth h century science fuddled Cuddled themselves wl with wih h experiment Their novels like hike the books of ot the new school of ot American Amerian realists were crowded with fact and minute description never or organized into lucid cance We agree agree- now that artistically artistically artistic artistic- ally they failed even as admit hat that the experimental pictures pic pie tures of Midwestern life now current current current cur cur- rent will have their chief value In the future as materials for social history Look for Main Street In 1955 on the shelves devoted to the tha background of ot American And II IL G G. G Wells might not his novels no b be the publications of ot a a. a avery very human laboratory for social moral and m mental research Is ho not pow now as much a research student with an artiss as as when in his youth he practised biology In tn tn University ot of London V |