One great drawback to the book is the immense number of new and generally useless words contained in it. Technical words are more or less useful, according to their more or less universal acceptance; but almost every writer now seems to revel in inventing an entirely new set for his own use.
Many scientific men have been abused for a want of classical knowledge, and for introducing barbarous names; but if an intimate knowledge of classics induces the possessor to run riot in terminology, and gives him a fancied right to alter, amend, and invent, with indiscriminate license, then we say, better barbarous words than barbarous confusion.
Quotation from: The History of Creation [Review of] The History of Creation by Ernst Haeckel, Professor in the University of Jena. English Translation (H.S. King and Co., London 1875], by Captain F.W. Hutton. New Zealand Magazine, volume 1, no 3, July 1876, pp 251-263.
