esoteric quotes

Sociology is a new science concerning itself not with esoteric matters outside the comprehension of the layman, as the older sciences do, but with the ordinary affairs of ordinary people. This seems to engender in those who write about it a feeling that the lack of anyabstruseness in their subject matter demands a compensatoryabstruseness in their language. 365

- Sir Ernest Arthur Gowers
  'Sociologese', in H F Fowler A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (2nd rev edn).