[162] Samuel H. Jameson, “Social Nearness among Welfare Institutions,”
_Sociology and Social Research_, XV (March-April, 1931), 322.
[163] The natural scientists, too, use many Latinate terms, but these are
chiefly “name” words, for which there are no real substitutes.
[164] See J. B. Greenough and G. L. Kittredge, _Words and Their Ways in
English Speech_ (New York, 1931), pp. 94-99.
[165] James R. Masterson and Wendell Brooks Phillips, _Federal Prose:
How to Write in and/or for Washington_ (Chapel Hill: University of North
Carolina Press, 1948), p. 10.
[166] Cf., for example, Madison in No. 10.
[167] It is possible that there exists also a concrete understanding,
which differs qualitatively from abstract or scientific understanding and
is needed to supplement it, particularly when we are dealing with moral
phenomena (see Andrew Bongiorno, “Poetry as an Educational Instrument,”
_Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors_, XXXIII
[Autumn, 1947], 508-9).
[168] Cf. Aristotle, ‘_Rhetoric_, 1410 b: “... for when the poet calls
old age ‘stubble,’ he produces in us a knowledge and information by means
of a common genus; for both are past their prime.”
[169] _International Encyclopedia of Unified Science_ (Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1941), II, No. 8, 7.
[170] _Op. cit._, p. 487.
[171] _Foundations of Sociology_ (New York: Macmillan, 1939), p. 383.
[172] “The Nature of Human Nature,” _American Journal of Sociology_,
XXXII (July, 1926), 17.
[173] “The Limitations of the Expert,” _Harper’s_, CLXII (December,
1930), 102-3.
[174] “The Sad Estate of Scientific Publication,” _American Journal of
Sociology_, XLVII (January, 1942), 600.
[175] (2 vols.; New York, 1933.)
[176] It is surely worth observing that nowhere in the King James Version
of the Bible does the word “fact” occur.
[177] Compare Sherwood Anderson’s analysis of the same phenomenon in
_A Story Teller’s Story_ (New York, 1928), p. 198: “There was in the
factories where I worked and where the efficient Ford type of man was
just beginning his dull reign this strange and futile outpouring of men’s
lives in vileness through their lips. Ennui was at work. The talk of the
men about me was not Rabelaisian. In old Rabelais there was the salt of
infinite wit and I have no doubt that the Rabelaisian flashes that came
from our own Lincoln, Washington, and others had point and a flare to
them.
But in the factories and in army camps!”
[178] One is inevitably reminded of the slogan of Oceania in Orwell’s
_Nineteen Eighty-four_: “Freedom is Slavery.”
[179] “Principles of Newspeak,” _Nineteen Eighty-four_ (New York, 1949),
p. 310.
Index
Abbreviated names, 229-30
_Address Preceding the Removal of the Senate from the Old to the New
Chamber_, 176-77
Adler, Mortimer J., 27, 30-31
Aesthetic distance, 175-79
“aggressor,” 231-32
“allies,” 221-22
“American,” 218-20
Anderson, Sherwood, 226
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