belonged in the eyes of the faithful to the text of the Bible 
     and of the New Testament as established by him, all this 
     soon made his language a model. Accessible immediately 
     to all readers . . . the term employed by Luther finally 
     conquered, and numerous words used only in medieval 
     German were finally adopted universally. And his 
     vocabulary imposed itself in so imperious a fashion that 
     most printers did not dare to diverge from it in the least.

     Before looking at the English evidence for the same 
concern with regularity and uniformity among printers and print 
uses alike, it is well to remind ourselves of the rise of structural 
linguistics in our day. Structuralism in art and criticism 
stemmed, like non-Euclidean geometrics, from Russia. 
Structuralism as a term does not much convey its idea of 
inclusive synesthesia, an interplay of many levels and facets in