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Reflections on The Internet

Published on December 27, 2022 by Marica

As you know, I’ve been combing through those old Horizon Magazine of the Arts volumes that I have. It shouldn’t but it does amaze me that folk 60 years ago thought so tenderly about television and its promise. Much the same as we had such hope for The Internet. It’s not all bad, of course. It’s just that the good to bad ratio should be higher.

Anyway–I noticed this was getting some hits today, for some unknown reason. Worth a re-post, I thought.

Twenty-six lead soldiers

Originally published on September 9, 2019

It’s Drudge Work Monday. BUT. The internet is awful. The internet can be awesome. There are some really dumb people out there in the world. There are some really smart people out there. Here’s the story.

I had picked up a couple of books from the FOL freebie table. I finally retrieved them from the floor of the truck. I skimmed the Forward of Builders of the Old World (Gertrude Hartman, 1959, 1st 1946).

It is the hope of the authors [that this book] … will equip its readers with a sense of their place in the long caravan of humanity, and inspire them to assume the responsibilities that will fall to them in a world that is growing more and more unified.

Lots to say about this. It’s a text of a certain sort, written at a particular time. Blah blah. I turned to the subsection, “How Printing Helped Men to Be Free,” in the chapter, “Great Awakening.” There I find that the author(s) apparently do not like to attribute direct quotes. There are no names, just “said one high Official,” “said one printer,” “said another.” I’m calling BS on this but that’s a different rant.

This caught my attention.

I have twenty-six little lead soldiers with which I shall conquer the world.

??

Neither my crappy old Bartlett’s 1891, nor newer 2002, turned up anything. Neither did The Harper Book of Familiar Quotations (1993). I typed the quote into a DDG search. Only the first four were relevant. After those the results were from algorithm wasteland. Franklin. Gutenberg. And a dude named Maynell. Back to the crappy old books to find an actual citation. Nothing. Note also that the results rephrased the quote to an imperative:

Give me twenty-six lead soldiers and I will [not shall] conquer the world.

Who said this?

First up, Yahoo Answers. Yay.

UK Yahoo Answers

“In Franklin’s day… .” [FYI Gutenberg ca. 1400-1468; Franklin 1706-1790]

No citations other than web sites. Keep scrolling.

Sort of makes you want to calmly walk outside and scream, doesn’t it?

Here’s the authoritative source of the first Ben Franklin claim.

http://www.forerunner.com/forerunner/X0297_Twenty-six_lead_sold.html

Too far down the rabbit hole to stop now so what the heck? Typefoundry dot blogspot dot com from 2007.

Pay dirt.

This phrase or some variation upon it used to stick in the minds of English writers on printing like a maddening half-remembered tune. It was often attributed, confidently but without ever giving a reference, to prolific and sententious writers like Benjamin Franklin. From time to time the trade press tried to get to the bottom of the matter. It never succeeded.

To disprove the attribution to Franklin (or Marx, or any of the even less likely candidates) would be a wearisome business, but we can be sure that if there had ever been a genuine reference to quote we should have heard all about it by now, many times over. In fact the earliest known instance of the phrase for which there is a certain date is in a small booklet, Une Visite à l’Imprimerie nationale, written by the dramatist Jules Claretie, and issued in 1904. The same text was repeated in the following year as the preface to an odd book, half type specimen, half promotional brochure, entitled Débuts de l’im­primerie en France. It was written by Arthur Christian, the Director of the Imprimerie Nation­ale. At the time of its publication the national printing office was preparing to move from the district known as the Marais to a new site in the 15th arrondissement of Paris. After the move, suggested Claretie, it would be possible to create a garden in the Marais and to preserve there the statue made for the Imprimerie Nationale, a copy of the original by David d’Angers in Strasbourg, represent­ing Gutenberg,

celui dont on a dit lors de son cinquième centenaire: Avec vingt-cinq soldats de plomb il a conquis le monde!

(He of whom it was said at the time of his fifth centenary, ‘with twenty-five soldiers of lead he has conquered the world’.)

In the event the statue was moved to a garden in front of the new building. It is shown at the head of this post as it appeared after the building was sold by the Imprimerie Nationale when it left Paris in 2oo5.

The fifth centenary of the birth of Guten­berg was celebrated in 1900 in both Germany and France, and the event generated a great deal of printing. Who made the remark cited by Claretie, and on what occasion? So far the search has been unsuccessful.

https://typefoundry.blogspot.com/2007/05/with-twenty-five-soldiers-of-lead-he.html

Further down

The notion persists to this day that, although one cannot quite pin it down, it should be easy enough to locate the origin of the phrase if only one took the trouble to look in the right place. This idea appears in an essay by Francis Meynell which probably did more to ensure its currency than any previous use, but it did so in a slightly perverted form. Meynell’s version is ‘With twenty-five soldiers of lead I have conquered the world’. This phrase appears as the heading to an essay in the first of a series of leaflets with the title A Printer’s Miscellany that were issued by the Pelican Press in about November 1921. Meynell repeated it in Typography, a decora­tive octavo volume promoting the Pelican Press, issued in 1923. 

4000+ words. Isn’t the internet awesome? Sometimes.

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  • Have yourself a cup of tea! Throw a tea party! Tea recipes for 1-40
  • WAKE UP, AMERICA!
  • Marica Cooks Monday | Saturday Morning Preparations
  • “So Long till Next Year”

Books of the Months: Bacon’s Essays

  • Why Bacon’s Essays?
  • Your Morning Bacon: 3 Slices
  • Morning Bacon: Just one slice, I’ve got to eat & run
  • Morning Bacon
  • Morning Bacon: A plateful
  • Bacon!
  • Some Bacon for Friday the 13th
  • “Of Marriage and Single Life”
  • Who is Lord Bacon? (Abridged)
  • “Of Custom and Education”
  • “Of Nature in Men”
  • “Of Adversity”
  • “Of Negotiating”
  • “Of Cunning”
  • Of Studies
  • “Of Discourse”
  • The next age
  • Who was Francis Bacon? (Seriously)
  • Who is Fra Bacon?

Books of the months: Anniversaries and Holidays

  • Why Anniversaries and Holidays?
  • Happy Birthday, President Houston!
  • How Ignernt Am I?
  • Ring Ring … Ring Ring
  • Service to Country
  • Imagine it gone
  • 250 Years Ago Today
  • Amerigo! Amerigo!
  • Every Seventh Notch
  • “The Ides of March have come”
  • Sweet
  • Top of the mornin’ to ya!
  • Give me Liberty
  • Sun & Moon
  • St. Gabriel
  • July & August
  • Chapter 15
  • Lady Day
  • The WWW has failed me, yet again
  • Two Roads
  • Chronicles of America
  • “The Revolt of Islam”
  • Things we missed
  • Cogito, dude.

Books of the Months: Science in Your Own Backyard

  • Crappy Old Book of the Month: (late) May Edition
  • Talk about Back Yard Science! Wooo Boy!
  • WARNING!! or not: Science in Your Own Back Yard
  • The Tools of Science, ca. 1958
  • Do NOT Try This with Fire Ants!
  • Science in Your Own Back Yard: The End
  • “The purpose of this book” is simple

Books of the Months: Horizon: A Magazine of the Arts

  • Sorry Indeed
  • Well, this is outrageous!
  • Crappy Old Books of November: Look to the Past’s Horizon
  • Mermaids
  • At random
  • Sampling 1961
  • Nice boots you got there, hippie
  • This week’s Horizon

Books of the Months: Currier & Ives

  • “The Battle of Jonesboro Georgia Sept. 1st 1864”
  • New York? Cotton? Country Life? Mississippi?
  • Seen in West Point, Mississippi
  • The Great Bartholdi Statue
  • How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood
  • A Cotton Plantation on the Mississippi
  • “The Great Victory in the Shenandoah Valley”
  • “The Battle of Chickamauga, Geo.”
  • Add to Basket
  • Reviews
  • Life in the Country: “The Morning Ride” | Alt. Title: The Unbearable Lightness of the Horse & Buggy Older Model Taurus Edition
  • “Rounding the Bend” on the Mississippi
  • Still Burning
  • “Battle of Corinth, Miss., Oct. 4, 1862”

Books of the Months: American Voices

  • “Scheming”: What a Great Word!
  • Not too good
  • An Audience
  • Fair enough?
  • The Benefit of Law
  • “Who are these people…?”
  • Quite Simply,
  • American Voices
  • “A Future American History Reviewed”

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