[To rim Enema or isms "Srecraroa."3
Sin,—I beg to offer a brief reply to the letter of a "Civil Servant." (1) " Final cause " is a term used by Aristotle in his analysis of causation. I am disposed to admit that it may have been incorrectly applied to that spelling book. (2) "I feel a feeling which I feel you will all feel is attributed to the late Bishop of Seuthwell. It is immaterial to my argument whether the words were uttered by a Bishop or a curate. (3) I object to the lonely or absolute " I am " because it is a mutilated passive, cryptically qualified by a suppressed participle, which may be mandatory, hortatory, advisory, or permissive. (4) "In dubiety " appeared in a printed Army Council Instruction issued by the War Office. (5) " Took place" must not be allowed to regain the repute which it lost when excluded from the Times, although
that exclusion is no longer enforced.—I am, Sir, &o., W. T.
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