AS TO OURSELVES 



vigor of our ancestors, for when we would 

 speak or write strongly we rather use 

 plain, short Anglo-Saxon words. But so 

 soon as we wish to think clearly or scien- 

 tifically, we have to ask the old Greeks, as 

 the Romans did wholesale before us, to 

 lend us their words, philosophy, theology, 

 metaphysics, logic, theory, hypothesis, an- 

 alysis, synthesis, music, and harmony; or 

 physics, mathematics, arithmetic, circle, 

 diameter, periphery, parallel, astronomy, 

 geometry, geography, biology, physiology, 

 and all other ologies; botany, chemistry, 

 molecule, atom, ion, etc., etc. In fact our 

 philosophy and our science would both 

 come to a standstill if they had to speak 

 only in English. 



Now one splendid Greek word for 

 whose irreparable loss the later Greeks 

 were themselves to blame, was the word 

 skepticism. The original Greek noun, a 

 skeptic, meant a thoughtful, reflecting 

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