He was largely responsible for the dissemination in this country of an attitude toward language that prevails to his day, even among the rank and file of our people are attitude which, while it is by no means exclusively American is yet notably so SAE is Webster's legacy, not primarily for the particular features of American spelling he advocated, but rather for the association of language with nationalism, uniformity moral virtues and authority, especially within the school setting. An edition from 1880, now called The Fementar Spelling Book, can serve to illustrate SAE a hundred years after the book's first appearance, to show how a simple textbook became an industry in itself without losing the core values it started with. The book is a revised edition of one first published in 1857.