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peculiar to myself, and only of a partial character at that. In¬ 
deed no other expectation of the meeting, so far as I am aware, 
exists, nor have I thought of any other; and yet I do not con¬ 
sider, and I do not understand that Grammar considers, “ail 
that follows” as the object of “I rather expect”—that is, of all 
that precedes. It would accordingly appear that the present 
case is one of those in which sauce for the goose is also sauce 
for the gander—that, if the possible massing of “I half-way 
expect” is not effected with a view to governing the following 
clause, the possible massing of “my brother to meet me” with 
a view to being governed by the preceding clause, is presum¬ 
ably also not effected. 
(c) That it ignores analogous cases. To illustrate, “I ex¬ 
pect (1) the Herald to expose Durand” may be replaced by 
“I expect (2) the Herald’s exposure of Durand,” with only 
negligible variation of the thought expressed. Accordingly, 
so far at least as possible, the object of “expect” (1) and the 
object of “expect” (2) should be interpreted alike. But 
Grammar I believe does not regard the immediate object of 
“expect” (2) as “all that follows.” (Compare illustrations, 
page 172.) There is accordingly apparent inconsistency in so 
regarding the object of “expect” (1). 
(d) That it disregards established mental habit. This ob¬ 
jection may be indicated very briefly, as mental habit will be 
emphasized (pp. 176-178) in the defense of another interpreta¬ 
tion. Meantime let it be supposed that, before the develop¬ 
ment of the infinitive phrase, the makers of language had 
formed the habit of regarding every extended object of a verb 
as consisting of a nucleary factor attended by its fellows, some¬ 
what as indicated in (2) of the preceding paragraph. Such a 
habit having been established, the linguistic chances lie against 
the development of another mode of sensing the object, e. g. as 
“all that follows.” Just as a single architectural' type is apt 
to characterize the race which is left to its own devices, so also 
a single mode of thought construction—and that by no means 
always the best—is apt to become the linguistic norm, to the 
neglect of others. Accordingly the habit of posing the objec¬ 
tive clause as a nucleary factor attended by its fellows, once 
