Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
Mar 1908
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1908natur..77..462p&link_type=abstract
Nature, Volume 77, Issue 2003, pp. 462 (1908).
Mathematics
Logic
Scientific paper
LEST some readers should infer from your obituary note on Sir Denzil Ibbetson (March 12, p. 443) that this distinguished anthropologist invented the word ``godlings'' for the rural deities of India, it is worth noting that ``godling'' was good English in the sixteenth century, and has never been allowed to drop. The Philological Society's ``New English Dictionary'' quotes Lambarde's ``Perambulation of Kent'' (1570-6) on raising altars ``to this our newe found Godlyng'' and examples from Drummond of Hawthornden, Dryden, and Peter Pindar show the convenience of the word. Coleridge preferred ``godkin'' for a minor deity with masculine attributes, but sanctioned ``goddessling''. Charles Colton in 1675 permitted a certain cult of ``little Goddikins'': Coventry Patmore regarded ``godlet'' as the more dignified appellative. Anthropologists have therefore had a fairly ample choice; but it should be added that in some of the above examples, at least, Dr. Murray and his coadjutors suspected a ``jocular'' intention.
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