I would like to recommend a wonderful article that compares mastery of the techniques with the early theologians learning Latin. Here is the source and a sample quotation: McGoun, Elton G. 1995. "Machomatics in Egonomics." International Review of Financial Analysis, 4: 2/3, pp. 185-199. 185: "It has been suggested that Learned Latin effects even greater objectivity by establishing knowledge in a medium insulated from the emotion-charged depths of one's mother tongue, thus reducing interference from the human lifeworld and making possible the exquisitely, abstract world of medieval scholasticism .... and of the new mathematical modern science which followed the scholastic experience. Without Learned Latin, it appears that modern science would have got underway with greater difficulty, if it had got underway at all. Modern science grew in Latin soil, for philosophers and scientists through the time of Sir Isaac Newton commonly both wrote and did their abstract thinking in Latin." Ong, W.J. 1982. Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word (London: Methuen): p. 114. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 916-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
