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Chapter IX
Explanation Analysis of certain Phraseology by the Deontological Test

There are a few some terms which are frequently employed not unfrequently by the
Legislator & the Moralist which appear to require
a few words sentences of explanation. As long as they are made
subservient to the deontological principle there is no the principal
other mischief which results from their use then is this – that more
perfect & convenient expressions might be found so that words are wasted & a round about way is taken in the pursuit of truth. Some
of these terms have however obtained such complete possession of
the field of ordinary expression that it the attempt to displace them
would be almost a hopeless. In fact the general
imperfection of language is one of the great impediments
to the the progress of philosophy. Correct ideas find great
difficulty in discovering appropriate terms. Language
lags behind science – and too frequently refuses its aid
to knowledge. The innovations of philosophy upon
language are slow & difficult. Philology is apt to
refuse the contributions of the other sciences. It prides itself on its poverty. And this
is the more to be regretted inasmuch as all
languages had their birth in a period when moral
& intellectual cultivation could only be in their infancy.
By A time will come it is earnestly to be hoped, when
Morality like Chemistry will create its own fit
nomenclature.

Nothing is more fatal than the misuse or rather the
abuse of language. Qualities the most opposed frequently shroud
themselves under the same phraseology. If there were a
language peculiar to innocence, it would only be so for one
moment, – the next it would be usurped by guilt.

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