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keys are considerately furnished, is not the most useful mode 
of promulgation. This is even worse than volapuk, having 
all the disadvantages of a jargon to be memorized, without 
the designed universality. 
In the use of specialistic and coined terminology not only 
pedantry may be observed, but the old juggle with words in 
which pretended novelty is mere mystification. Greek com¬ 
pounds are convenient as brands or labels, but do not make 
thought less obscure and often leave it more so. Polysylla¬ 
bles and water are bad, but polysyllables and mud are worse. 
Such obscuration of truth is a serious injury. Tolstoi makes 
a good profession of faith in saying, “ No one can believe the 
unintelligible. Incomprehensible knowledge is the same as 
ignorance.” 
From these views it must be admitted that Philosophy, 
being broader than any science—than all the sciences to¬ 
gether—cannot be limited by the formulation peculiar to 
any of them, and should not adopt the terminology of any, 
but use a vocabulary that is generally understood and 
accepted. 
This admission brings up the subject of style in its broadest 
scope. One of the most noted, by voluminous publication, 
of American scientists, once sneeringly exclaimed, “Style! 
bah! that is only the paint.” He was perfectly honest in 
this depreciation, as is shown by his own productions, which, 
probably not written by any one hand, but constructed by 
cooperative clerical carpentry, are not read currently, but are 
only used for reference, as pigeon-holes might be, with an 
index catalogue. He was wrong in the very conception of 
style, for all words and sentences are pictures, whether good 
or bad, and the master-piece as well as the botch comes 
from the paint as handled by the painter, the canvas of fact 
being in common. He was still more fundamentally wrong 
in regarding style as an artificial exterior or varnish over- 
lying the descriptive catalogue which he regards as alone 
valuable. His sneer shows not only that he would rank the 
barn-dauber as equal to ftaffaelle, but that he is unconscious 
