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The Gothic branch of our language unfortunately does not<lb/> | |||
lend itself to the wants of the Utilitarian — There is no making<lb/> | |||
one word of <note><hi rend="underline">320<lb/>y</hi></note>[Greatest-happiness — still <del>less is there of finding in</del> <add>more difficult is it to extract from</add> its<lb/> | |||
roots the substitutes <del><gap/></del> for those conjugates which the Latin<lb/> | |||
will supply.<lb/></p> | |||
<p>The antagonist to the felicity-maximizing, is the<lb/> | |||
ipse-dixit principle — & there is no reason why the ipse-dixit<lb/> | |||
root should not produce all the branches necessary to discourse —<lb/> | |||
as <hi rend="underline">ipse-dixitists</hi>, — & <hi rend="underline">ipse-dixitism</hi></p> | |||
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It is scarcely out of place, by the way, to state here<lb/> | |||
in answer to those who have so frequently animadverted on Mr<lb/> | |||
Bentham's unusual terms, — that there is no topic on which his mind<lb/> | |||
was more habitually occupied than in the search of fit terms to<lb/> | |||
convey his ideas. No man was ever more impressed with the<lb/> | |||
importance of <del>a correct</del> <add>appropriate</add> nomenclature, — as the necessary instrument<lb/> | |||
for <del>correct</del> <add>logical</add> reasoning — for planting & disseminating correct ideas<lb/> | |||
It was the ambition of a Roman Emperor to plant a word which<lb/> | |||
should be allowed by after times to grow — Two words at least<lb/> | |||
have been planted by Bentham & adopted into our language —<lb/> | |||
<add>the adjective</add> <hi rend="underline">international</hi>, <del>the</del> the noun <hi rend="underline">codification</hi>, with its conjugates<lb/> | |||
to codify & codifiers — & tho' he can hardly be said to have<lb/> | |||
introduced the verbs to <hi rend="underline">maximize</hi> & to <hi rend="underline">minimize</hi> with their<lb/> | |||
correspondent nouns, — he has certainly given them that<lb/> | |||
currency — & attached to them that value, which gives the assurance<lb/> | |||
of <del>their living on to remote times</del> <add>their escaping the doom of oblivion</add></p> | |||
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31
The Gothic branch of our language unfortunately does not
lend itself to the wants of the Utilitarian — There is no making
one word of 320
y[Greatest-happiness — still less is there of finding in more difficult is it to extract from its
roots the substitutes for those conjugates which the Latin
will supply.
The antagonist to the felicity-maximizing, is the
ipse-dixit principle — & there is no reason why the ipse-dixit
root should not produce all the branches necessary to discourse —
as ipse-dixitists, — & ipse-dixitism
It is scarcely out of place, by the way, to state here
in answer to those who have so frequently animadverted on Mr
Bentham's unusual terms, — that there is no topic on which his mind
was more habitually occupied than in the search of fit terms to
convey his ideas. No man was ever more impressed with the
importance of a correct appropriate nomenclature, — as the necessary instrument
for correct logical reasoning — for planting & disseminating correct ideas
It was the ambition of a Roman Emperor to plant a word which
should be allowed by after times to grow — Two words at least
have been planted by Bentham & adopted into our language —
the adjective international, the the noun codification, with its conjugates
to codify & codifiers — & tho' he can hardly be said to have
introduced the verbs to maximize & to minimize with their
correspondent nouns, — he has certainly given them that
currency — & attached to them that value, which gives the assurance
of their living on to remote times their escaping the doom of oblivion
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