him/he

[Guest guest]

>Which is best?

>

>I offer my respectful obeisances unto HIM who is known in this world

>as Ñrila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, who is of the same status as the

>Supreme Lord and is dearmost to Lord Krsna.

>

>I offer my respectful obeisances unto HE who is known in this world

>as Ñrila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, who is of the same status as the

>Supreme Lord and is dearmost to Lord Krsna.

 

 

Him.

 

 

-

>From "Fowler," 2nd edition.

 

 

CASES, 3. Temptations.

 

A. First in frequency and deadlines comes the personal pronoun in a

place requiring the objective case followed by a relative that must be

subjective. Examples: "Three years of dining are a preliminary HE who

would defend his fellows." / "Should not a Christian community receive

with open arms HE who comes out into the world with clean hands annd a

clean heart?" / "They came to fight in order to pick up the challenge

of HE who had said, 'Our future lies in the water'." / In these the

temptation has been to regard "he-who" as a single word that surely

cannot need to have the question of case settled twice over for it;

and hazy notions of something one has heard of in classical grammar

called relative attraction perhaps induce a comfortable feeling that

one will be safe whether one writes "he" or "him." That is a delusion;

neither relative attraction onr inverse attraction (the right term

here) is a name to conjure with in modern English grammar, though the

textbooks can muster a Shakespearian and Miltonic example or two; in

modern grammar they are only polite names for elementary blunders. All

the foregoing examples should have "him" instead of "he."