because that, though perhaps the words are as easy to be learnt, yet the signification of them being more large, comprehensive, and abstract than of the names annexed to those sensible things the child hath to do with, it is longer before he learns their precise meaning, and it requires more time plainly to form in his mind those general ideas they stand for.
izan ere, hitzak agian neurri berean errazak izan arren, hala ere, haien esanahia haurrak inguruan dituen gauza haiei emandako izenena baino zabalagoa, abstraktuagoa eta ulertzeko zailagoa denez gero, luzeago joko dio hitz abstraktu horien esanahi zehatza ikasteak eta, jakina, denbora gehiago beharko du hitz horiek ordezkatutako ideia orokorrak gogamenean eratzeko.