and all the manner of a pensive elegy that
affects the tone of its contemplation.  It recounts the various ways that
the good of the best among our maxims is &quot;oft interrèd with their bones&quot;,
how the aim of the pragmatic maxim to clarify thought gets clouded over
with the dust of recalcitrant prepossessions, drowned in the drift of
antediluvian predilections, lost in the clamor of prevailing trends
and the shuffle of assorted novelties, and even buried with the
fractious contentions that it can te