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MALLERY. 
tiation is good and necessary, but integration is essential. 
This is only a modernized form of Bacon’s quaint but pro¬ 
found sentence: “ Let none expect very great promotion of 
the sciences, especially in their effective part, unless natural 
philosophy be drawn out to particular sciences; and again, 
unless these particular sciences be brought back again to 
natural philosophy.” 
There is another broad distinction between general and 
specialized studies, which, though often neglected, practically 
transcends in importance those derived from theory and 
history. This consists in the appropriate and adequate 
formulation of their respective results. The vocabulary 
requisite for Philosophy differs from that proper for a spe¬ 
cialty. It should be such as may be understood by hearers 
or readers of good general education. Doubtless the actual 
operation and formulation of thought in many branches of 
science, notably chemistry and botany, besides mathematics, 
require the elaborate technical language and symbols in¬ 
vented for them, and in all lines of study condensation and 
precision have demanded new terms, which must continue 
to increase with the rise of new facts and thoughts. But 
workers with these newly fashioned terminologic tools be¬ 
come too fond of and dependent on them, indeed sometimes 
are taken captive by them. 
A distinguished mathematician contends that if a man 
cannot reduce his statement on any subject to an algebraic 
equation his concept cannot be real or clear. It may be 
true that there is a devotee of algebra who is unable to 
think except in algebraic symbols, but if he cannot express 
his thought on a non-mathematical subject in the vernacular 
it will be of no benefit to others than those within the guild 
of Euclid. Perhaps no full or grand concept would be con¬ 
veyed even to them. It might have only the relation that a 
diagram has to a cyclorama. Surely to present ideas and 
discoveries in cryptograms (and many cryptograms would 
be required if individual whim should rule), even if the 
