Alexandrian philosophy apprehends the message in a very
different way from that in which it is
received by a mind formed in African schools of
rhetoric and courts of law.
Now words are stamped with the philosophies, the religions, the
superstitions, and the customs of those through whose
mouths
they have passed. But a word may be,
and most words are, so worn by use that
the original image and superscription are no
longer
visible except to skilled investigators ;
they pass current without a thought of the
mint whence they were issued. Their present
value
in mental commerce is the only thing
considered.This is so obvious that I should scarcely think it necessary to mention it
were it not that it seems to have been ignored
by some earnest and able quirers.
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