The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-03-24

OF and anS~rnutatiOn."
IT is a Habit Of the Centuries.
You may not know much about
Stephen Phillips. but TO learn Of him
as "a shifting appa-ition in a gray
world OF naturalisnl, one who accen-
tuated the swing of the pendulum
away from the pSeudO-social and fun
can1entally prevaricatiTe drama Of
Pinero,' is certainly an introduction
TO him that you are not going to Tor
get. And the essay on George Mere
dith begins St~upendously: '"The ccle-
bration of the eightieth birthday Of
George Meredith, with its vast gar
land Of appreciation from leading
men n women of letters of the
EnSlish-speaking race, served but as
a prelude to the yeritable outburst of
laudation, tribute, calculation and
panegyric that followed his death.
The belated efToreScence of the re
pute of George Meredith. this sudden
twilight emergence from the shrine
or submerged renOWn to the pedestal
Of clear fame, ETC." this, ] submit is
fine writing and Horace Greedy, alone,
has damned with word not the least
eesquipedalian, the fine writer.
Use OF Long Words.
Long words have their use, but long
words are determined, after ali by the
parallels of latitude. The formula
in Boston for saying its cold" is
that the atmospheric ex~uberance is
prejudicial 10 the sustension of the
caloric in the physiological struc-
ture." Francis Wilson, the actor,
has written of the ''effervescent ebul-
litiOn of an evanescent fancy" Each
Of these is a shade better than 'obes-
sion with the monoInania of aninad-
version against the female SEX |
p~essionaIciy hate that sort of a man.
lam right now obsessed with the
~nonoTnania OF anilnadVersion against
him. He's my favorite insanity.
But long words do a their en-
pigments all the same MI. Herbert
Spencer, who was as great a man as
any about whom Doctor Henderson
, has written, found il Impossible te
: discuss as simple q thing "a evolution
o without using a few. Here's his def
: milton OF evolution: at is an i~ntetgra.
ton of matter and -concomitant dis
sipation of motion, during which tn
+ matter passes from an indefinite, in
:, coherent homogenneity to a definite
/. coherent heterogeneity, and during
:. which the retained motion undergoe
a parallel transformation" A~nythin;
9 hard about that? All in the world yol
!, have to do is to look up the word
: and you'n know as much about evo
luton as the man who invented TIL
a COMPOUNDED thing and secured a pat
ent on the process.
Simple Advertising Terms.
The terms Of advertising should h
- simple, yet 1T becomes necessary t
RELY mon different speech sometimes
Here is an advertisement that l rea
some wears ago: "Eenusian Cniisn
II the universal coSTnO-planetary con
slant. is expiicated in the Psyche
Harmonic Scientist, a journal of pur
- Cniism devoted to the exposition {
the Psycho-IIarmonic system of mer
~ rol r.ianno and tho laws of Vibration
, NenuSian Iniism is the crown an
: capstone OF Mento-Scientific PyTs
mida, the aeonic etfiorescence OF de-
final decree"
- j looked every word mp and VIII:
"a DO YOU suppose Nenusian UniiSn
~ or was? It's a religion. or was the
-, and it utterly negatives the idea
- Robert 1ngersoll that no man with
ie sense of humor ever invented q Fei
gion.
Preachers Can Write.
- Ministers can be ornate with II
Il pen and cabalistic speech has eV'
confounded the smart alec who Low
~ to corner the parson. Here is the b
ginning of a contribution to a rel
- gious monthly: The infeliCities
- translation have ever been the fruCti
- ulosa originary Of needless logon;
%. chies III the poleInical palaestra of Il
Christian church." The article "
- never finished. The editor calked hiT
- self on "logomachies" and had TO u
the manuscript To stanch the gore.
D. DIR. Henderson liz not write til
~ but he ought to have done it. the Su
- ceeding sentences. Mrs. Bradlaut
~, Bonner, daughter Of the great Engli
&c atheist, Charles Bradlaugh. has a p
per in London called the ReforH1t
" Mr.. J.. NJ. Robertson. a sociologic
controVersialist, stings Mr.. g. Ii. Pc
ris, who appears to have made .;
astonishingly uncritical affirmation
Or q pseudo n~aturalistic optimism. TT
teaches us all that if we would be a
OF alytical rather than e~jacuiatory. G
pletive, fnterjeCtiOnal or >uncritic
we must not handle p~Seudo-natur: