opinion that they cultivated their own language so deeply and exclu- 
sively that it almost amounted to a fault. There is, for instance, in the 
Ehetoric of Aristotle an amusing passage, in which a person is introduced as 
contending, half in earnest, that if you predicate non-existence, you predi- 
cate a species of existence ; as if not-being were a peculiar way of being. 
That is a confusion which would never occur to a man who had learned 
another language. I do not think I need now make any further observations 
upon the question, and I will conclude by again thanking you for the kind 
way in which you have heard me. 
The Chairman then adjourned the meeting. 
