Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Report on the Geology and Agriculture of the State of Mississippi, 1860
It is very commonly and cheaply charged upon professional men generally, and upon those cultivating the exact sciences in partic ular, that they have a perverse disposition to wrap up everything known in an unintelligible, technical jargon, or big words, as they are currently termed. It is expected of them that they should develop new ideas (such as always result from the special study of any subject), but that they should use no new terms in expressing or communicating them which is simply impossible. N 0 one can expect to be taught, without learning let him catch the idea, and it will matter little to him whether the word expressing the same be Greek, Latin, or Chinese; English terms, already possessing definite meaning, cannot be used to express new ideas. If he cannot take the time, or trouble, to learn the idea, he ought not to complain if he cannot understand the term.
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