Roots: A Plea for Tolerance (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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There is one defect in them which I am anxious to confess and apologise for that is, the apparent disregard of the accurate meanings of words. It is a stumbling-block that has been the cause of much misunderstanding even of the most careful and learned writers. To an unphilosophical person like myself the difficulty is almost hope less, and I have been forced to attempt exactness by inexactness that is, by giving the same idea under several different verbal forms. I think in this I have been partially successful, and that any one who wishes to understand these conversations will not have much difficulty in doing so; while those who wish to misunderstand and misrepresent them are welcome to that pleasure.

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