Our speaking has its failings and defects, as well as all the rest. Mo… — Essays
SAPIR 861
Our speaking has its failings and defects, as well as all the rest. Most of the occasions of disturbance in the world are grammatical ones; our suits only spring from disputes as to the interpretation of laws; and most wars proceed from the inability of ministers clearly to express the conventions and treaties of amity of princes. How many quarrels, and of how great importance, has the doubt of the meaning of this syllable, _hoc_,* created in the world? Let us take the clearest conclusion that logic itself
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