Thomas Jefferson's Philosophy of Education by Holowchak M. Andrew

Author:Holowchak, M. Andrew [M. Andrew Holowchak]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781317660620
Publisher: Taylor and Francis

English, thus, has the capacity for greater copiousness than Greek.

Having a neologism-friendly language goes beyond euphony and copiousness. It allows for utmost precision of meaning and clarity of expression. That is a point made plain by Condorcet in his Outlines of an Historical View of the Progress of the Human Mind – a book, under the rubric “ethics,” Jefferson recommended to John Minor.30 For Condorcet, an imprecise language for science would be an impedance to the inevasible progress of the human mind over time – an impedance especially to a person of limited leisure and an impedance especially to his moral improvement.31

Jefferson then considers “another source of copiousness more abundant than that of termination” – the composition of the root along with members of its family, with prepositions and with other words. Here English has the capacity for distended copiousness, since many of its prepositions and words are based on Greek and Latin. For illustration, if one were take the English root of the verb “to place” (place) and the commonly accepted Americanized roots from the Greek and Latin roots of the word of the same meaning (thesis from and location from locatio) and add to them prepositions, one could fashion the following words.

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