204 EDITORIAL 



the use of the inherently preferable term esker. While due 

 regard should doubtless be paid to the law of priority, it seems 

 obvious upon mature consideration that all future generations 

 should not be made to suffer unduly for the infelicities of the 

 first usage often carelessly inaugurated. The improvement of 

 the language should have first thought, and be given determina- 

 tive weight in all permissible cases. The evolution of a common 

 vehicle of thought for all the world will grow more imperative 

 as intercommunication and common sympathy become more 

 universal, and the rapid increase of vital knowledge and the 

 more strenuous demands of a higher civilization will require that 

 this vehicle shall be not only surpassingly rich in its resources, 

 but economical in its modes of operation. Intellectual waste- 

 fulness is as reprehensible as material wastefulness, and our 

 vehicle of thought should be as assiduously improved in the 

 interest of economy and effectiveness as our vehicles of property 

 or person. 



T. C. C. 



