Excerpt from The Growth of Modern Philosophy
Philosophy may be at once, in the best sense of both words, popular and scientific. Plain speech does not make exact thinking impossible; and indeed there is authority enough, even in the work of recognised philosophers, for treating of the highest problems in the simplest language. Plato did not write textbooks, but dialogues which might be read outside the school; and Hume confessed to an attempt at being "ambassador from the realms of learning to those of conversation" - not, perhaps, without a smile at these divided kingdoms.
The distrust of philosophic terminology, so common in England, is a most valuable corrective for those uncouth obscurities with which philosophers sometimes mistakenly attempt to glorify their subject.
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