Sound motion pictures : from the laboratory to their presentation (1929)

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THE COMING OF SOUND 17 varied gifts. In this way alone the infusion of new blood is simply incalculable. Nor can I see how, in the long run, the movement can fail to be international. It is not necessary to advance visionary arguments in defense of such a belief. We may, or may not, live to speak and hear a universal language. Nations may, or may not, become more and more conversant of each other's idioms. Neither of these is an impossibility. Neither of these would be necessary. Translation and adaptation are old tricks quite handy for the new trade. Or some eventuality, not dreamed of now, may cut the Gordian knot. Regardless of the outcome, the beginnings traced in this chapter give indication of a world-wide movement. Once again inventiveness has ignored boundaries. Look back over the record I have presented and note how the whole civilized world has been represented in this conquest of matter by mind. Because of superior national wealth and industrial organization, our country is in the van. There can be no doubt that we shall continue to deal with the new resource and that we shall spread over the face of the globe the advantage of the mechanisms involved. We have traced their evolution. Now let us see what they are.