The Indian Review October 1912 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Discussion of All Topics of Interest

Because the parasite is found in blood liver and spleen a physician takes the blond from a patient and feels for the enlargement of the two latter organs in the diagnosis of the disease. [...] Everywhere in creation the physical and the metaphysical exist side by side; and the character of a civilization is determined by the prepondeance of one or the other although only in the balanced unicea of the two does it reach a great height. [...] Some would compare the conservatism of English in the matter of spelling with the conservatism of the vernaculars in the diction grammar and spelling of their literatures. [...] Throughout the 16fli century and on into the 17th the English vowel sounds were chaning a e i o u long had originally much the same value as the long vowels in the Telugu and Tamil syllabaries and the short omitting a the value of the corresponding Tamil and Telugu short vowels. [...] If a had always the sound of a in mat and ai the sound of a in mate matting could not be confused with mating because the one would be spelt mating and the other muffing whereby the unnecessary t of matting would be dropped ; for to the ear there are no more two is in the one than in the other.