Words are too awful an instrument for good and evil to be trifled with: they hold above all other external powers a dominion over thoughts. If words be not (recurring to a metaphor before used) an incarnation of the thought but only a clothing for it$$$ then surely will they prove an ill gift; such a one as those poisoned vestments$$$ read of in the stories of superstitious times$$$ which had power to consume and to alienate from his right mind the victim who put them on. Language$$$ if it do not uphold$$$ and feed$$$ and leave in quiet$$$ like the power of gravitation or the air we breathe$$$ is a counter-spirit$$$ unremittingly and noiselessly at work to derange$$$ to subvert$$$ to lay waste$$$ to vitiate$$$ and to dissolve.
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