It often occurs to me that the common functional character of the language we call English is insufficient to nurture or foster our human intelligence. It seems to me that in common use and in many cases, its peculiar character seems to shape our relational sensing, and the crudeness of this process actively suspends or obstructs our intelligence. It also lacks sufficient connotative depth, especially when compared with an older language such as Hebrew. It strikes me that English has become the willing servant of an ever deepening set of processes of abstraction, and as this proceeds, our generalized capacities for intelligence often diminish.