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Excerpt from The Works of John Locke, Vol. 2 of 9 H E natural and improved im perfeétio'ns of languages we have feen above at large; and fpeech being the great bond that holds fociety together, and the common conduit whereby the improvements of knowledge are conveyed from one man, and one gene ration to another; it would well deferve our molt feri ous thoughts to confider what remedies are to be found for the inconveniencies above-mentioned. 2. I am not fo vain to think, that any one can pretend to attempt the perfeét re forming the languages of the world, no not fo much as of his own country, without rendering himfelf ridicu lous. To require that men {hould ufe their words con f'tantly in the fame fenfe, and for none but determined and uniform ideas, would be to think that all men fhould have the fame notions, and fhould talk ofi nothing but what they have Clear and difiinét ideas of; which is not to be expecfted by any one, who hath not vanity enough to imagine he can prevail with men to be very knowing or very filent. And he mq be very little {killed in thie worl. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.