Which preposition to use with simplification
We cannot illustrate our contention better than from the popular simplification of Ethics introduced by Bentham.
"There has been considerable simplification in agricultural labor already, which would have been more conspicuous, had it not been for the excessive drought which has prevailed since 1834.
In reconstructing his apparatus, Mr. Naudin has availed himself of the experience already acquired, and has necessarily had to introduce important modifications and simplifications into the process.
True we should not have altogether got rid of innate tendencies, but we should have reduced them to one, namely, to the struggling, or persisting, or self-asserting tendency; a simplification like that offered by the matter-and-force theory of Buchner.
To simplify seems forced, and I think Mrs. Gustus struck harder on the note of simplification than that of simplicity.