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This habit of using words which have no definite meaning is very convenient to writers, but very much the reverse for readers. [What is Darwinism (New York, 1874)

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Charles Hodge · Conference Papers; or, Analyses of Discourses, Doctrinal and Practical, Delivered on Sabbath Afternoons to the Students of the Theological Seminary, Princeton, N.J. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1879), CCVI, "Woe is unto me if I preach not the Gospel" (1 Cor. 9:16), dated April 22, 1866, p. 311
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