Eight lectures on the signs of life from their electrical aspect eightlectureson00wall Year: 1903 '^ZlNCAtiVfi'' If wise to attempt to use the proper expressions ? No doubt the confusion is very great, no doubt the main bulk of our electro- physiological literature is totally unintelligible to physicists and to most physiologists. Shall we not, however, lay the foundation of a further mass of worse-confounded confusion by any sudden and unauthorised endeavour to call white white and black black, when for the last twenty or thirty years our leaders have been content to call white black and bl
Eight lectures on the signs of life from their electrical aspect eightlectureson00wall Year: 1903 '^ZlNCAtiVfi'' If wise to attempt to use the proper expressions ? No doubt the confusion is very great, no doubt the main bulk of our electro- physiological literature is totally unintelligible to physicists and to most physiologists. Shall we not, however, lay the foundation of a further mass of worse-confounded confusion by any sudden and unauthorised endeavour to call white white and black black, when for the last twenty or thirty years our leaders have been content to call white black and black white ? I hardly like to hazard an opinion, but in presence, on the one hand, of the impossibility of clear thought and speech, with external adjectives for internal relations, and, on the other hand, the mental impossibility of obtaining a sudden reversal of language which is endeared to physiologists by its familiarity and its obscurity, I have adopted a new and barbarous word that avoids the pole name ' negative' and the element name ' electro-positive,' yet implies both names. And for the present, at any rate, awaiting a better word, or a clearer understanding, I shall, whenever occasion seems to demand the word to make a meaning clear, use the expression sincaiive, to imply ' electro-
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