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Dialogue
1 Craty| the State. The creator of laws and of social life is naturally 2 Craty| and give better or worse laws, and make better or worse 3 Craty| all words have the same laws.’ Mere consistency is no 4 Craty| although he is not aware of the laws of euphony and association 5 Craty| language these primeval laws; or why one race has triliteral, 6 Craty| times over.~(Compare Plato, Laws):—~‘ATHENIAN STRANGER: And 7 Craty| profusion and variety. The laws of vegetation are invariable, 8 Craty| precisely the same. The laws of language are invariable, 9 Craty| the question whether the laws of language, like the other 10 Craty| language, like the other laws of human action, admit of 11 Craty| cases is the same—that the laws of nature are uniform, though 12 Craty| uniformly true. For the laws of language are precarious, 13 Craty| literary character. The laws of language can be best 14 Craty| composition of words, the laws of euphony and sound, the 15 Craty| repetition, and some of the laws by which sounds pass into 16 Craty| the principles or natural laws which have created or modified 17 Craty| more refined—the natural laws of euphony began to affect 18 Craty| apprehend partially the laws by which speech is regulated: 19 Craty| language, although subject to laws, is far from being of an 20 Craty| embodied in poems or hymns or laws, which may be repeated for 21 Craty| It often supersedes the laws of language or the rules 22 Craty| yourself, should observe the laws of moderation and probability.~ 23 Craty| you do not think that some laws are better and others worse?~