hardly know; blind Titans, exhibiting superhuman energy, doing a great deal of work, but doing it, as the blind are like to do, ill.
In no fact of our existence does this carelessness for the Past show itself more strongly than in our Language; we have mutilated, and in some respects wellnigh forgotten, the speech of our ancestors, and have got instead a monstrous mosaic, a patchwork of various tongues which we have picked up and pieced together as we went along.
Some one will exclaim, that the anomalous condition of our Language is no fault of the present Age, that it has only succeded to sins entailed on it by those that came before, and that it adds very little to the store of mutilation, nay strives hard in many ways to bring about a purer state of things. To this it may be answered, that the present Age is responsible for the sins of those that preceded it, if it can atone for them and will not; no one will deny that this is a case where the entail might be docked with the greatest advantage; as to its adding very little to the mutilation, any one who has the heart to read Novels, Annuals, and a certain class of Periodicals, must be aware that these are
