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::Just tryin' to figure it out. I've got it in my head that it was a long-standing usage in Protestant rhetoric. I think it's very interesting the 1905 example in the article that calls it a "characteristic phrase" of Anglican Archbishop Frederick Temple. I looked in ''Pilgrim's Progress'' for anything about slopes or slipperiness but couldn't find anything. I have a notion that there must have been some famous book or sermon or revivalist who popularized the term but I haven't been able to find any evidence yet.

::Just tryin' to figure it out. I've got it in my head that it was a long-standing usage in Protestant rhetoric. I think it's very interesting the 1905 example in the article that calls it a "characteristic phrase" of Anglican Archbishop Frederick Temple. I looked in ''Pilgrim's Progress'' for anything about slopes or slipperiness but couldn't find anything. I have a notion that there must have been some famous book or sermon or revivalist who popularized the term but I haven't been able to find any evidence yet.

But the second question is: from the above it seems clear that, whatever was happening earlier, in the 1980s it experienced a rather sudden rise in popularity as a term in political discourse. I'm trying to figure out if there's some identifiable origin for the modern use. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 09:03, 29 March 2007 (EDT)

::But the second question is: from the above it seems clear that, whatever was happening earlier, in the 1980s it experienced a rather sudden rise in popularity as a term in political discourse. I'm trying to figure out if there's some identifiable origin for the modern use. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 09:03, 29 March 2007 (EDT)