So many madmen and visionaries have influenced the world by their utterances that we must not turn a deaf ear.
The Futurists are the anarchists of the art and literary world.
The Cubists, Orphists, and other extreme moderns all reason from the past; the Futurists would break with the past entirely—as if it were possible!
All who do not agree with them are Pass-ists, and every form of art and literature up to Futurism belongs to Pass-ism, and is therefore condemned.
There is much in Futurism that is repellant, just as there is much in Anarchism that is repellant.
When men push their opposition to established order to extremes, their hatred of the traditional and conventional is such they indulge in wild and foolish excesses; they even defy law and order and decency, and require curbing.
The unprejudiced reader will find a great deal that is suggestive in some of these Futurist declarations mixed with much that is philosophically and ethically unsound.