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sterilize a man into a sticker of pins and a 

 paster of labels; on the other hand, he may 

 be a modern biologist whose interest is in 

 the experimental modification of types, and 

 in the mysterious insulation of hereditary 

 characters from the environment. Only in 

 one direction does the modern specialist 

 acknowledge his debt to the dead lan- 

 guages. Men of science pay homage, as do 

 no others, to the god of words whose magic 

 power is nowhere so manifest as in the plas- 

 tic language of Greece. The only visit many 

 students pay to Parnassus is to get an in- 

 telligible label for a fact or form newly dis- 

 covered. Turn the pages of such a dictionary 

 of chemical terms as Morley and Muir, and 

 you meet in close-set columns countless 

 names unknown a decade ago, and unintel- 

 ligible to the specialist in another depart- 

 ment unless familiar with Greek, and as 

 meaningless as the Arabic jargon in such 

 mediaeval collections as the ' ' Synonyma ' ' 



