Call it the fault of civilization. God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Ou… - Aldous Huxley

IN ENGLISH, words of Latin origin tend to carry overtones of intellectual, moral and aesthetic "classiness" — overtones which are not carried, as a rule, by their Anglo-Saxon equivalents. "Maternal," for instance, means the same as "motherly," "intoxicated" as "drunk" — but with what subtly important shades of difference! And when Shakespeare needed a name for a comic character, it was Sir Toby Belch that he chose, not Cavalier Tobias Eructation.

The more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of experience, the greater his chance of suddenly, one fine morning, realizing who in fact he is...

"Pain's a delusion."
Oh, is it?" said the Savage and, picking up a thick hazel switch, strode forward.
The man from the The Fordian Science Monitor made a dash for his helicopter.