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INTRODUCTION


ologists even have talked about a load of broken debris after a fire dumped for a sort of macadam, as a "library." Others dealing with some collection so insignificant as to be a library only in the narrowest technical sense, have called the collection "Library" with an air which claims for it peerage with the best and thereby have misled a few unwary. The word library has thus been used so as to mislead and one does not need to go into the merits of any particular case, to cordially agree with those who urge that "in any event" a "promiscuous use of the term temple library ... is to be discountenanced ... as misleading and tending to create confusion."

The remedy for the misleading use of words however is not to use a wrong word or to deny the right word, but to use the right word in the right way—not to deny that a spade is spade or to call shovel spade for fear shovel may be taken for a

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