The History Of Local Rates In England, In Relation To The Proper Distribution Of The Burden Of Taxation (1912)

In their anti-rational propaganda the enemies of freedom systematically pervert the resources of lang]uage in order to wheedle or stampede their victims into thinking, feeling and acting as they, the mind-manipulators, want them to think, feel and act. An education for freedom (and for the love and intelli]gence which are at once the conditions and the results of freedom) must be, among other things, an educa]tion in the proper uses of language. For the last two or three generations philosophers have devoted a great deal of time and thought to the analysis of symbols and the meaning of meaning. How are the words and sentences which we speak related to the things, per]sons and events, with which we have to deal in our day-to-day living? To discuss this problem would take too long and lead us too far afield. Suffice it to say that all the intellectual materials for a sound education in the proper use of language an education on every level from the kindergarten to the postgraduate school are now available. Such an education in the art of distinguishing between the proper and the improper use of symbols could be inaugurated immediately ...»