Morris L. Ernst, counsel for Random House – who successfully defended “Ulysses” against obscenity charges in 1933-34 – wrote in his foreward to the 1934 edition:
It would be difficult to underestimate the importance of Judge Woolsey’s decision. For decades the censors have fought to emasculate literature. They have tried to set up the sensibilities of the prudery-ridden as a criterion for society, have sought to reduce the reading matter of adults to the level of adolescents and subnormal persons, and have nurtured evasions and sanctimonies.
