3. “Manifesto of Futurist Musicians,” May, 1911. 4. “Manifesto of the Futurist Woman,” March, 1912. 5. “Manifesto of Futurist Sculpture,” April, 1912. 6. “Manifesto of the Technic of Futurist Literature,” May, 1912. Supplement to same, August, 1912. And every few months new declarations of faith are issued in Milan, each, if possible, more violent and extravagant than its forerunner. If the public looked upon the Cubist pictures as “crazy,” what would it think of these manifestoes if printed in English and scattered broadcast? The work of madmen! 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. Take, for instance, some of the propositions regarding the technic of the literature of the future: 1. Use only the _infinite form_ of the verb, because only the infinite mood gives the sense of the _continuity of life_. 2. Abolish the use of the _adjective_ so that the noun _standing alone_ may speak for itself with all its force. The adjective implies modification, an arrest of judgment, meditation, and is, therefore, opposed to the _human vision dynamic_, to the _force_ and _energetic flow_ of human thought. 3. Abolish the _adverb_, which is a _superfluous refinement_, a fastidious hampering of human expression. 4. New _punctuation_: Adjectives and adverbs and conjunctive phrases being suppressed, punctuation goes with them naturally, in the varied continuity of a living style which creates itself without the use of absurd commas and periods. To accentuate certain movements and indicate their directions, certain mathematical and unusual signs will be used.