This, though men make a shift with in the ordinary occurrences of life, where they find it necessary to be understood, and therefore they make signs till they are so; yet this insignificancy in their words, when they come to reason concerning either their tenets or interest, manifestly fills their discourse with abundance of empty unintelligible noise and jargon, especially in moral matters, where the words for the most part standing for arbitrary and numerous collections of ideas, not regularly and permanently united in nature, their bare sounds are often only thought on, or at least very obscure and uncertain notions annexed to them.
Baina, nahiz eta gizakiek, bizitzako arazo arruntetan nahitaez elkar ulertu beharra dutenean, konpondu egiten diren besteak ulertu arte zeinuak eginez, hala ere beren iritziei edo interesei buruz arrazoitzen hasten direnean, euren hitzek esanahirik ez edukitzean hots huts eta hitzmordoilo ulertezin nabarmenez beterik ateratzen zaizkie diskurtsoak, moralaz dihardutenean bereziki, hemen hitzik gehienek naturan erregularki eta iraunkorki baturik ez dauden ideien bilduma hautazko ("arbitrary") ezberdin asko ordezkatzen dituztelarik, hitzon soinuetan soilik pentsatzen baita maiz edo, gehien ere, hitzoi oso nozio ilun eta ziurtasunik gabeak lotzen baitzaizkie.