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Show must read again " Wordsworth, Shelley, Shel-ley, Carlyle, Ruskln, Arnold, Meredith, Mere-dith, to meet great words now little employed, words that make you realize real-ize the utmost reach of life; in so doing, do-ing, one pauses in dismay, realiziiy; how full contemporary speech is of lesser terms, how few employ the greater words that tell the inner life of the soul. From the Atlantic. Our Speech. Our very vocabulary is degraded; the most far-reaching symbols of our language come seldom into use, or appear ap-pear with diminished meaning. Pol-low, Pol-low, for Instance, the course of the word "infinite" through the antics of contemporary literature. Our phraseology phrase-ology has become ctlrnal; our vital terms are terms of physical life. Nowhere No-where is the limitation 'of 'contemporary 'contem-porary thought mpre apparent than In. these instmmentsof speech. One |