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The process goes on unconsciously and cannot be accelerated — even by a strenuous President or a confident multi-million- aire. The pine tree will not be hurried into dropping its leaves. The people are sovereign here, and will not drop a word, or a letter even, at the bidding of anyone. As Horace tells us, ^'Custom is the law and arbiter and rightful legislator of language." Much complaint has arisen id recent years of the difficulty of English spelling. How can it be otherwise if spelling is ...A PLEA FOR LITERATURE. 9 not taught in the schools, and if the ** letters Cadmus gave'' are submerged in phonic systems or other recent experimenta- tion. Words are not arbitrary signs, but are embodied thoughts. They have life-histories reaching back through innumerable years and teaching, often by these very despised silent letters, about affiliations of races in the dim past beyond the record of history. It is pleasing and instructive to trace these embodied thoughts through their changes, and it is help- ful in acquiring a knowledge of other tongues as well as m understanding our own.
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The process goes on unconsciously and cannot be accelerated — even by a strenuous President or a confident multi-million- aire. The pine tree will not be hurried into dropping its leaves. The people are sovereign here, and will not drop a word, or a letter even, at the bidding of anyone. As Horace tells us, ^'Custom is the law and arbiter and rightful legislator of language." Much complaint has arisen id recent years of the difficulty of English spelling. How can it be otherwise if spelling is ...A PLEA FOR LITERATURE. 9 not taught in the schools, and if the ** letters Cadmus gave'' are submerged in phonic systems or other recent experimenta- tion. Words are not arbitrary signs, but are embodied thoughts. They have life-histories reaching back through innumerable years and teaching, often by these very despised silent letters, about affiliations of races in the dim past beyond the record of history. It is pleasing and instructive to trace these embodied thoughts through their changes, and it is help- ful in acquiring a knowledge of other tongues as well as m understanding our own.
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