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The volume gathers previously published essays and sketches arranged chronologically, blending personal reflection, cultural commentary, and linguistic polemic. Central threads examine the contested language question, arguing for a unified popular grammar against hybrid or inconsistently mixed forms and criticizing literary fashions that reject grammatical discipline. Alongside technical discussion of diction and form, the author juxtaposes imagination and science with garden metaphors of roses and apples and reflects on beauty, artificiality, friendship, and cultural identity. The tone mixes rhetorical argument, intimate address, and illustrative examples to defend a coherent popular language as the basis for shared expression.
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