"The idols of the market are the most troublesome of all; those, namely, which have 

 entwined themselves around the understanding from the associations of words and names. 



" There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the 

 mind." BACON. 



" Language being accommodated to the praenotions of men and the uses of life, it is 

 difficult to express therein the precise truth of things, which are so contrary to our pras- 

 notions. But to one of due attention, and who makes my words an occasion of his own 

 thinking, I conceive the whole to be very intelligible ; and when it is rightly understood I 

 scarce doubt but it will be assented to." BERKELEY. 



