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1819 July 4 Defence of | | ag st Edinb
1819 July 4

Defence of | | ag st Edinb gh Review

II Indirect attacks

5. Neology in general

All the above transgressions such as they are may be summed up in the generic offence which of late years though not by me has been characterize /designed/ by the name of neology, by those whose right to utter /employ/ to give birth and utterance to new words has not found any such body of hostile interest against it as mine has

For a general defence or at least apology against this general charge the following observations may perhaps be found not altogether inapposite

1. In the first place the liberty has never been exercised wantonly

2. In the next place where at the same time the subject is comparatively or absolutely of no importance, the new names are absolutely of no use nothing being expressed /designed/ by them that was not already designated as clearly and correctly by the existing stock the additions thus made to the stock of the language have been regarded either with approbation or at the worst with indifference.

3. In the third place in the whole of the physical department /department/ of the field of science,

4. In the fourth and last place in this very department, where no such adverse /sinister/ interests stand in the way of useful truth an /a most/ unbounded exercise of this privilege is regarded by men of all parties and all descriptions with unqualified satisfaction, and the usefulness of it is altogether out of dispute. What I allude /This refers/ to those names which with such unbroken constancy are given in the offices[?] belonging Honourable House itself and if not there in the Newspapers to Parliamentary Bills. +

+ ☞ Proceed to shew the use and necessity of such nomenclature
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