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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