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study either of our own names or those of those with whom we 

 are most familiar. The habit of letting no word pass from 

 us without analysis will give us always and everywhere food 

 for thought and speech. It will satisfy us that in properly 

 studying words we must study things. Botany turns in the 

 eyes of its votaries every weed into a flower. Linguistics trans- 

 form every vocable, no matter how trite or trivial. They show 

 our commonest phrases to be carrier-doves flying through all 

 ages and continents bearing on their mngs a flavor of poetry, 

 history, philosophy, religion. Thus they become veritable birds 

 of "Daradise regained. 



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