It's A Lie, But Heaven Will Forgive

The Classical Scholars Have Kept Alive The Tradition Of The Superiority Of The Ancient Languages -- A Kaleidoscopic Mass Of Suffixes And Prefixes, Supposed To Represent An Infinite Shading Of Meaning. It Is A Character They Share With The Ojibway And The Zulu.

A Half Truth, Like Half A Brick, Is Always More Forcible As An Argument Than A Whole One. It Carries Better.

We Can No Longer Communicate With The Apes By Direct Language, Nor Can We Understand, Without Special Study, Their Modes Of Communication Which We Have Long Since Replaced By More Elaborate Forms. But It Is At Least Presumable That They Could Still Detect In Our Speech, At Least When It Is Public And Elaborate, The Underlying Tone Values With Which It Began. Thus If We Could Take A Gibbon Ape To A College Public Lecture, He Would Not Understand It, But He Would "get A Good Deal Of It." This Is All The Students Get Anyway.

The Student Of Arithmetic Who Has Mastered The First Four Rules Of His Art, And Successfully Striven With Money Sums And Fractions, Finds Himself Confronted By An Unbroken Expanse Of Questions Known As Problems.

Each Section Of The British Isles Has Its Own Way Of Laughing, Except Wales, Which Doesn't.