Which difficulty seems to have been very much increased by the doctrine of ABSTRACTION. For, so long as men thought abstract ideas were annexed to their words, it doth not seem strange that they should use words for ideas-it being found an impracticable thing to lay aside the word, and RETAIN THE ABSTRACT IDEA IN THE MIND, WHICH IN ITSELF WAS PERFECTLY INCONCEIVABLE. This seems to me the principal cause why those men who have so emphatically recommended to others the laying aside all use of words in their meditations, and contemplating their bare ideas, have yet failed to perform it themselves.
Badirudi zailtasun hau asko handitu dela abstrakzioaren doktrinaren eraginez. Zeren, gizonek ideiak hitzei batuta zeudela pentsatzen zuten bitartean, ez baita txunditzekoa ideien ordez hitzak erabili izana, ezinezko gertatu izan baita hitza albo batera utzi eta berez erabat bururaezina zen ideia abstraktuari adimenduan eustea.