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Excerpt from Points at Issue: And Some Other Points A confusion in the use of terms. What are the elements of English? And what is meant by English? Are we not possibly talking here about two or three distinct things? In a sense, we may be said to teach the elements of English at Yale when we begin reading Shak spere with a class of sophomores, or an Anglo Saxon primer with a class of juniors. We are not sure that any member of the former class has ever read a play of Shakspere before; and we are quite sure that for every member of the latter class, the anglo-saxon primer is his first introduction to the speech of Alfred. And yet, in another sense, we take it for granted that every boy who comes up to his entrance examination has been taught the elements of English in the primary school, or even in the nursery, and has been making daily use of the language for at least fifteen years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.