SOURCE: Coyle, Michael. “A Profounder Didacticism: Ruskin, Orage and Pound's Perception of Social Credit.” Paideuma 17, no. 1 (spring 1988): 7-28.

In the following essay, Coyle expounds upon Orage's influence in shaping both Ezra Pound's literary career and his socialist views as well as examining the restless intellectual needs of Orage's that drove him from movement to movement.

Under these circumstances, no designing or any other development of beautiful art will be possible.

—John Ruskin, 1859

So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on.

—William Morris, 1884

The literature and art of today are the parallels of the economic situation of today.

—A. R. Orage, 1912

A vicious economic system has corrupted every ramification of thought.

—Ezra Pound, 1934

I

Despite the impotent fury with which he pursued the topic of economic reform, Ezra Pound's writings...