Names are rapidly added to our list of authors, while little or nothing is done for the science.

Nay, while new blunders have been committed in every new book, old ones have been allowed to stand as by prescriptive right;.

and positions that were never true, and sentences that were never good English, have been published and republished under different names, till in our language grammar has become the most ungrammatical of all studies! "Imitators generally copy their originals in an inverse ratio of their merits; that is, by adding as much to their faults, as they lose of their merits."-- KNIGHT, _on the Greek Alphabet_, p.

117.
"Who to the life an exact piece would make, Must not from others' work a copy take."-- _Cowley_.
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All science is laid in the nature of things; and he only who seeks it there, can rightly guide others in the paths of knowledge.