the soci 



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precisely as do many foreign Mil-Stances in the body. 



which is meant that every time an ontogenesis is reviewed, the 



words, the developmental history is compressed to give room 

 for the later added requirements. Adapting this to national 

 matters, the United States seems to he rapidly passing through 

 stages whirl, required aires, comparatively, in older nations. 

 Written languages tend to become phonetic in spelling: 



plished for many decades, radically in the last named conn 

 in Germany there would seem to be little to be accompli; 

 in this direction, hut in the last twenty years the silent 1< 

 "h" may be omitted. Conservatism holds on to un 

 nounced, absolutely useless letters under various pleas- 

 biases. How very like this is to the unfaithful copying 

 ontogenesis by phylogenesis. The abridgment occurs in 



fossilizing tendencies against alteration. 



America indicates that ( 'ope'- law of acceleration is at wor 

 develop the United States in this as in other regards bey 

 the capabilities of its senile parentage. Many other us 

 innovations are similarly made and meet with resists 

 And vet without conservatism there would be no advance. 



