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Posted by battersby on July 17, 2006, 11:24 pm
senior-apprentice wrote
> I am going to quote ..............................................
Very interesting Clark. Appreciate the compliment,
and, the education.
The Frame of Civilization by Logon sounds like it could be a good read.
--
Battersby.
T. M. Battersby
www.battersbyornamental.com
> battersby wrote:
> > And, you can drop the Mr.., mister.
>
> I am going to quote author William Bryant Logan, from his new book
> "Oak: The Frame of Civilization..."
> "The honorific title 'Mister' is a pure and vanishing formality. Few
> people are aware of its derivation. But in the age of oak, Mister
> denoted the master of a craft. It was a powerful honorific, and
> existed specifically to distinguish from the other current honorifics:
> Lord So and So, Sir Somebody, the Honorable Diddledee, Most Reverend
> Rubbadub... Mister meant that a person had mastered a complex task and
> could do it reliably and well. It signified a high level of
> coordination between hand, eye, and brain."
> "These were the people, argued Thomas Jefferson, out of whom the great
> democracies were to be made. The Misters were men who had trained
> their intelligences to a high level by encountering and transforming
> resistant materials."
> It is my pleasure to call you Mister, Mr. Battersby...
> daclark
>
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