Dialogue

 1 Craty|      that justice is fire in the abstract, or heat in the abstract;
 2 Craty|         abstract, or heat in the abstract; which is not very intelligible.
 3 Craty|        calls the second world of abstract terms into existence, as
 4 Craty|     again, we may frame a single abstract notion of language of which
 5 Craty|   various phenomena. There is no abstract language ‘in rerum natura,’
 6 Craty|        any more than there is an abstract tree, but only languages
 7 Craty| philology, unlike that imaginary abstract unity of which we were just
 8 Craty|       they outrun experience and abstract the mind from the observation
 9 Craty|       for they imply a growth of abstract ideas which never existed
10 Craty|          at a time when in their abstract form they had never entered
11 Craty|          to objects of sense and abstract ideas as well as to men
12 Craty|   opinion, he says, ‘Fire in the abstract’; but this is not very intelligible.
13 Craty|       says, ‘No, not fire in the abstract, but the abstraction of