Quotation from: The Strength of the Strong

Written by: Jack London


It was the newspapers that were responsible for the next disaster
that befell him. For the five years following the publication of
his book he had remained silent, and silence for a lonely man is
not good. One can conjecture sympathetically the awful solitude of
Emil Gluck in that populous University; for he was without friends
and without sympathy. His only recourse was books, and he went on
reading and studying enormously. But in 1927 he accepted an
invitation to appear before the Human Interest Society of
Emeryville. He did not trust himself to speak, and as we write we
have before us a copy of his learned paper. It is sober,
scholarly, and scientific, and, it must also be added,
conservative. But in one place he dealt with, and I quote his
words, "the industrial and social revolution that is taking place
in society." A reporter present seized upon the word "revolution,"
divorced it from the text, and wrote a garbled account that made
Emil Gluck appear an anarchist. At once, "Professor Gluck,
anarchist," flamed over the wires and was appropriately "featured"
in all the newspapers in the land.

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