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the information of (“ the beggars ”), the benighted naturalists 
of Europe, whether this is the style in which Indian field natu¬ 
ralists converse, or, at the least, those with whom Mr. Hume as¬ 
sociates ? or are we to take it as being only a sample of that lan¬ 
guage of the future “ 100 years hence, when English is spoken, 
as it then will be, by 500 millions of people ? & ( t.c . p. 4). 
Not content with next gracefully indicating in these choice 
lines, 
u ‘ Him as prigs vot isn’t his’n, 
Ven he’s eotched ’ill go to pris’n,’ ” 
the proper abode of Dr. Einsch, Mr. Hume further threatens 
him, and authors like him, with the pillory—“and if the 
learned authors escape the pillory they so richly deserve (and 
it shall be no fault of mine if they do), at any rate we have 
the consolation of knowing, that posterity if it cannot ‘ quod’ 
them f will quod / 33 etc. (7. c. p. 3). There is something sub¬ 
limely comical in this gentleman’s threat to “ pillory 33 those 
authors whose principles of nomenclature differ from his 
own. That Mr. Hume, single handed, is fully capable 
of providing an abundant supply of the appropriate missiles 
is not impossible. But who will assist in erecting the 
pillory ? 
There is also another form of pedantry which greatly exer¬ 
cises Mr. Hume; that “ curious custom of parading brief 
descriptions in what is supposed to be Latin; as prefixes or 
tags to full, sound, sufficient English or German ones ” (7. c. 
p. 3). “The motives that lead authors into this somewhat 
meaningless practice ” (7. c.) are then analyzed, all that is 
ungenerous being attributed to them, while the self-evident 
reason escapes Mr. Hume’s powers of conception. We are 
then assured, in solemn, prophetic tones and with a startling 
confidence, untempered by even a single, favourite, unctuous, 
saving adjuration of “D. V.,” “that 100 years hence, when 
English is spoken, as it then will be, by 500 millions of 
people, any of their writings that survive, will do so only in 
expurgated editions from which all the f Latin ’ has been care¬ 
fully expunged” (7. c. p. 4). Then it is seriously suggested that 
Latin should be discarded and that all descriptions should be 
