That friend […] added, with a smile, that he had more than once amused himself with the thought of a verbarian Attorney-General, authorized to bring informations ex officio against the writer or editor of any work in extensive circulation, who, after due notice issued, should persevere in misusing a word.

First, an evolvable system can respond quickly to change. In other words, a new system satisfying changed requirements is released onto the market quickly.

Facebook, for its part, maintains that the data-collection activity its Research app undertook was aboveboard and not at all duplicitous.

Though there is a disposition in mankind, to declaim against the corruption and peculation of the present times, as being more venal than formerly; yet, if we look back to different periods, we shall find statesmen and politicians, as selfish and corrupt, […] as those who have lately figured on the political stage.