[143] _Works_, II, 401. [144] _Works_, III, 175. [145] _Works_, III, 42-43. [146] _The Congressional Globe_, Thirty-first Congress, First Session (June 21, 1850), p. 1250. [147] _Where the Battle Was Fought_ (Boston and New York, 1900), p. 4. [148] _Address Delivered by Hon. Charles J. Faulkner before the Valley Agricultural Society of Virginia, at their Fair Grounds near Winchester, October 21, 1858_ (Washington, 1858), pp. 3-4. [149] _On Style_ (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1946), p. 321. [150] See Norman J. DeWitt, “The Humanist Should Look to the Law,” _Journal of General Education_, IV (January, 1950), 149. Although it is not our concern here, it probably could be shown that the essential requirements of oratory themselves depend upon a certain organization of society, such as an aristocratic republicanism. When Burke declares that a true natural aristocracy “is formed out of a class of legitimate presumptions, which, taken as generalities, must be admitted for actual truths” (_Works_ [London, 1853-64], III, 85-86) my impression is that he has in mind something resembling our “uncontested term.” The “legitimate presumptions” are the settled things which afford the plane of maneuver. [151] _Address Preceding the Removal of the Senate from the Old to the New Chamber: Delivered in the Senate of the United States, January 4, 1859_ (Washington, 1859), (Printed at the Office of the Congressional Globe), pp. 5, 7. [152] There is commentary in the fact that the long commemorative address, with its assembled memories, was a distinctive institution of nineteenth-century America. Generalizations and “distance” were on such occasions the main resources. [153] _The Position and Function of the American Bar, as an Element of Conservatism in the State: An Address Delivered before the Law School in Cambridge_, July 3, 1845. From _Addresses and Orations of Rufus Choate_ (Boston: Little, Brown, 1891), pp. 141-43. [154] A distinction must be made between “uncontested terms” and slogans. The former are parts of the general mosaic of belief; the latter are uncritical aspirations, or at the worst, shibboleths. [155] _E.g._, Samuel T. Williamson, “How to Write Like a Social Scientist,” _Saturday Review of Literature_, XXX, No. 40 (October 4, 1947), 17. [156] See Bertrand Russell, “The Postulate of Natural Kinds or of Limited Variety,” _Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits_ (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1948), pp. 438-44. [157] (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1939), p. 349. [158] Melvin Seeman, “An Evaluation of Current Approaches to Personality Differences in Folk and Urban Societies,” _Social Forces_, XXV (December, 1946), 165. [159] _Identification and Analysis of Attribute-Cluster-Blocs_ (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1931), p. 214. [160] Donald L. Taylor, “Courtship as a Social Institution in the United States, 1930-1945,” _Social Forces_, XXV (October, 1946), 68. [161] For example: “id,” “ion,” “alga.”