This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ... WHY ENGLISH DOES NOT SIMPLIFY HER SPELLING SOME people like to reform everything they can get their hands on. Others want to fold away and worship whatever is presented to them by the caprice of history. The world is pretty evenly divided between these two. And if only Creation had thought to make all the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ... WHY ENGLISH DOES NOT SIMPLIFY HER SPELLING SOME people like to reform everything they can get their hands on. Others want to fold away and worship whatever is presented to them by the caprice of history. The world is pretty evenly divided between these two. And if only Creation had thought to make all the radicals red and all the conservatives white, it would have been a great convenience. For there is no use in trying to estimate a man's opinions until you discover to which of these fundamental schools he belongs. If he belongs to the reds, you take everything that he says with a grain of salt, and make up for not following his advice by enjoying his company. If he belongs to the whites, you take what he says (with all due respect for his gray hair and family connections) with a grain of pepper. Perhaps the drift of these remarks will reveal the fact that I am a red. I like to meddle and tinker. I would rather go from bad to worse than let well enough alone. I belong to that disreputable class damned by Tacitus (or Cicero, or somebody who understood both Latin and human nature) as "desiring a revolution for its own sake." To such persons everything very obviously needs a change, and the only question with them is whether they have time to give the revolution their personal supervision. Instead of introducing myself, therefore, as the other debaters upon simplified spelling do, by wagging a long tail of university degrees, I give this more relevant information that I am a red, and that what I say about anything organized or established is generally taken at a considerable discount. Such being my nature, I instinctively defend the Simplified Spelling Board. Its critics ought to remember that its motives are complex, like the motives of human...
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