ABSTRACT
Both views – the one appealing to Logic for help and the other indicating an autonomous rule for Grammar – are equally in disagreement with the facts and to be rejected. It is nothing short of absurd to assume, with the rigid grammarian, that grammar has grown up as a sort of wild weed of human faculties for no purpose whatever except its own existence. The spontaneous generation of meaningless monstrosities in the brain of Man will not be easily admitted by psychology – unless of course the brain is that of a rigid scientific specialist.
