"Whenever the omission of a word renders the meaning of a sentence unintelligible, the ellipsis becomes improper. A writer in "The Guardian" uses this expression: "He is inspired with a true sense of that function." The meaning is not intelligible till we put in the words improperly left out: "He is inspired with a true sense of the importance of that function." "Arbitrary power," says another, "I look upon as a greater evil than anarchy itself, as much as a savage is a happier state of life than a galley-slave." We can not properly call a savage or a galley-slave a state of life, though we may with propriety compare their conditions. The obscurity is removed by doing away with the ellipsis: "as much as the state of a savage is happier than that of a galley-slave." (Course of Composition and Rhetoric, Quackenbos, p. 285.) _Clearness Depends upon Unity in Sentences:_ "To be clear, a sentence must have unity; that is, it must not contain incongruous material, and must be so expressed that it gives the reader the impression of being one thought. When a sentence contains incongruous statements, it is said to lack unity of thought. When a sentence fails to present its meaning as one obvious whole, it is said to lack unity of form. Each of the examples cited * * * below, violates unity of thought, or unity of form, or both. Note how much clearer are the corrected sentences. 1. Chaucer began to write at an early age, and as he was a page for some court lady, he went to France when she did. _Corrected:_ Chaucer began to write at an early age. Being at this time the page of a court lady, he went in her train to France. 2. Once I saw a college President as he walked upon the stage, and he held in his hand a whole basket of diplomas. _Corrected:_ I once saw a college President walk upon the stage holding a whole basket of diplomas in his hand. 3. A good paragraph must have unity of thought, and the different sentences of which it is composed must be logically connected, and what is most important in the paragraph must be made prominent, and what is of small consequence merely hinted at. _Corrected:_ A good paragraph must have unity of thought. A paragraph is unified if the different sentences in it are logically connected, and if what is most important is made prominent, what is of small consequence, merely hinted at. PART III. Post-diluvian Dispensations. LESSON XVII. (Scripture Reading Exercise.) THE ABRAHAMIC DISPENSATION. ANALYSIS. I. Melchizedek and Abraham--Relationship of. II. The "Call" of Abraham. III. The Gospel Given to Abraham. REFERENCES. Gen. xi-xxv. Heb. v. and vii. Psalms cx. Also Doc. and Cov Sec. cvii:1-4. Alma (Book of Mormon) ch. xiii. Notes 1, 2, 3, 4; also Art. Melchizedek and Abraham in Smith's Bible Dictionary and Kitto's Biblical Literature. Seventy's Year Book I, pp. 37-39. Notes 4, 5 and 1. Gen. xii:1-4 Book of Abraham ch. i:15-19; ch. ii:6-11. Note 6.