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Grammar is the appendenda vermiformis of pedagogics: it is as useless as the letter q in the alphabet, or as the proverbial two tails to a cat, which no cat ever had, and the finest cat in the world, the Manx cat, has no tail at all. "The literary style of most university men is commonplace, when not positively bad," wrote Herbert Spencer in his old age.
Sect. 2. Non numeranda suffragia, sed appendenda, saith Augustine in Psal. xxxix. Our divines hold, that all things which are proposed by the ministers of the church, yea, by aecumenical councils, should be proved and examined; and that, when the guides of the church do institute any ceremonies as necessary for edification, yet ecclesia liberum habet judicium approbandi aut reprobandi eas.
Correspondence schools for the taming of bronchos are as naught; and treatises on the gentle art of wooing are of no avail follow nature's lead. Grammar is the appendenda vermiformis of the science of pedagogics: it is as useless as the letter q in the alphabet, or the proverbial two tails to a cat, which no cat ever had, and the finest cat in the world, the Manx cat, has no tail at all.
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