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Logic

Ch. Language

Improvement. 1. Copiousness

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Generally speaking, there exists in language a natural tendency to improve itself, or to speak strictly to become improved in respect of this desirable quality. The same causes, by the operation of which the earliest and scantiest stock of the instruments of thought and conversation were produced, continue in action, and will continue in action, without end. Observation, experiment, experience, reflection, discovery, invention: all these are so many seeds of language, seeds from which new additions to the stock of words and combinations in every language are continually springing up.

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