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26 THE HOUSE THAT SHADOWS BUILT
modern psychologists tell us, take hold of the soul in those years before the mind begins to make conscious records. The Liehermanns, his mother’s family, had always shown more urge for eminence than the other people of their circle; and perhaps the broken-hearted Hannah Liebermann planted this seed in both her sons. Further, emulation of his brother Arthur, for whom Kalman Liebermann was doing so much, had its distinct influence on Adolph.
' His education, so far, was of such sort as to fit him for that career which, after many vicissitudes, he would enter fifteen years later — the expansion of the moving picture into a major American industry. His schooling had not passed beyond what we call in America the eighth grade. However, European education was then much more thorough then American. And from his school or his innate qualities, he had acquired the best practical fruit of education — the orderly mind. He thinks on straight lines; he has a passion for seeing things as they are. In that respect, he is perhaps innately educated. Had he gone on like his brother Arthur to the University, he might have done great things; but probably not with the moving picture. That needs the common touch, which a higher education usually dulls. Even his reading had helped him along the road which he was to travel. He read by habit “for the story.” If he were called upon to list the books that have helped him, he would have to include the American dime novel !