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Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad shape. But it is generally assurned that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it. OUr civilization is decadent and our language- so the agrument runs must invetably share in the general collapse. It follows that any struggle against the abuse of language is a sentimental archaism, like perferring candles to electric light or hansom cabs to aeroplanes. Underneath this lies the half-cinscious belief that language is a natural growth and not an intrument which we shape for our own purposes. Now it is clear that the decline of a language must ultimately have political and economic causes. It is not simply due to the bad influence of this or that individual writer. But an effect can become a cause, reinforcing the original cause and producing the same effect in an intensified form, and so on he feels himself to be a failure, and then fails all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, it easier for us to have foolish thoughts. The point is that the process is reversible. Modern English, especially Writtern English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble. If one gets rid of these think clearly is a necessary first step towards political regeneration. so the fight against bad English is not frivolous and is not the exclusive concern of professional writers.