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standing the dense stupidity and the guile that characterizes mankind, after all truth and right are the strongest of all powers in the human world, and certainly would be so, though there were no such words in their language, and no such ideas had ever been prescinded. I pass this by, because the fallacy of the nominalists has blinded them to this great truth. I will therefore attack the objection upon another side. Although I cannot admit that all generals, nor even that all general signs, are of the specific essential nature of words, I am happy to acknowledge that all words in the

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