Show A MAXIA FOH WORDS In the St Jamee T A Vance calls attention to the mania for tor big words Among men of science and gives some sollie amusing examples Mr r Herbert Spencer In his First Firs I Principles the tho Unit first volume of oC his Synthetic ph phy says sas that Evolution Is an integration tion of oC matter and concomitant tion of oC motion during which the matter pa passes from In an Indifferent Incoherent t homogeneity to a definite coherent heterogeneity and during which the re reo motion undergoes n It transformation J I can remember many years ago hearing an acquaintance reel feel oft a remarkable paraphrase of oC that good old saw People l who live In III glass glau glasshouses houses should not lIol throw stones stone This is 18 the way he put It In Inhabiting habiting domiciles ot of crystalline structure ture should refrain from the projection of missilEs of oC formation The late George John was wal another scientist who fairly reveled In big words lie played with them Jug Bled them Into sentences and the aver lIer average age reader cannot help losing himself In inthe the bewildering maze mille Two examples from his hili ot of llmann Ism his best beet known work will lIu Irate the point They Th are selected at random In speaking of oC plant life lite All the organ lams hint propagate themselves not exclusively shel by fission or but bUI II by sexual fertilization Which trAn translated to common rommon I English means that higher plants multiply not only by division and buds but b by seeds IOOS A little further on Mr Ir Rom MS speaks of oC the undifferentiated of oC the first onto ontogenetic ontogenetic genetic stage Such Sueh words word I are simply staggering The other ether day I met with the word weal A The Standard Diction Dictionary ary an defines It thus thUI A phalanx or of birds bird Of course the meaning of oC the word wort was at once made clear In some Ome readings s on ento entomological sUbjects I met with the word wont whIch the Standard says 1 III A name given to a suborder of neur Insects with and antennae The definitions of scientific words In Inthe inthe the Standard Dictionary all as ma may be In Inferred erred b by the examples cited are not characterized b by extreme simplicity of language Time The render is III Informed III the the Is II the name give to 10 RII an order of without 1 a mouth or intestinal Canal but with n a retractile coverer with hooks comprising doe The Tho are a ot of Isopods with Inferior and with the anterior four tou pairs of oC legs ciliated and the three ambulatory Taking up Ih study tuel or of shellfish onto one finds Ands that tilt lb lire are a family ot of having I a k shaped boo body Most MOSI people know kilo s a least what a desk I Is like hike Professor eor Hyatt HaU In nn Article on thi nautilus In the tells us that I the he heading of In sill aU genetic series n 0 le Is 1 a tendency toward coiling and greater involution In the ensue st specialized forms ot of each series and 1 a correlative increase In n the profundity of the Impressed ed zone zon Professor Or CoPt Cope in III his hll Fac Factors Factors tors of oC Organic Evolution tells hilt hll reader rader that In the first case IllI that thai ul of the human elbow the was wal lux sted so 0 that thaI th the humeral condyles articulate with Ith th the ulna uina an antenor n tenor to the process The Th translator ot of Psychology of III Attention tries to say NY that when we weare weare are happy happ we for forget t our surrounding lie puts lUll It In III this II way Intense en enjoyment n A momentary unity ot of Time was wall concludes Mr r Vance when 1 a word ord to the wise wiN Was Xo Now allays it II must be u a mighty might lone Ion word or It will not do Time was wa when the school bo toy could coull recite wIh Ith satisfaction both Joth to himself and teacher Lit Little tie drops of water Little groins grains ot of sand Make the mighty might ocean And the pleasant land Nowadays to meet th the full Cull require requirements ments mente of oC polysyllable science he mud mut paraphrase It thus Infinitesimal particles or of saline enne tin fluidity Minute corpuscles cles ot of tact Inor Manic matter maller Conjointly cause caust to exist the able expanse of aqueous section And the resplendent superficIal area or of dry Iry solidity |