Now that I have made this catalogue of swindles and perversions, let me
give another example of the kind of writing that they lead to. This time it
must of its nature be an imaginary one. I am going to translate a passage
of good English into modern English of the worst sort. Here is a well-known
verse from Ecclesiastes:
I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift,
nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet