Note 5 — Chapter I · THE PHAEDRUS AND THE NATURE OF RHETORIC

The Tyranny of Words (New York, 1938), p. 80. T. H. Huxley in Lay Sermons (New York, 1883), p. 112, outlined a noticeably similar ideal of scientific communication: “Therefore, the great business of the scientific teacher is, to imprint the fundamental, irrefragable facts of his science, not only by words upon the mind, but by sensible impressions upon the eye, and ear, and touch of the student in so complete a manner, that every term used, or law enunciated should afterwards call up vivid images of the particular structural, or other, facts which furnished the demonstration of the law, or illustration of the term.”