312 NOMENCLATURE 



By-the-way, talking of nomenclature, did you ever reflect, 

 after you and your best friend had been at loggerheads for 

 an hour or two over some political or social or theological 

 or personal problem, and had been about ready to order 

 pistols for two and coffee for one, that, after all, you 

 were of the same opinion, but that you had been misun- 

 derstanding each other's terms and thus misinterpreting 

 each other's ideas ; in other words, that when he said A 

 and you said X, you really meant the same thing, but had 

 a different term to describe it ? Unless you have both 

 been taught in the same school, you must first sit down 

 and find out what you mean by the phrases or words you 

 use, before you know whether you have anything to dis- 

 cuss or not. 





