Healing From Verbal Abuse

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/healing-from-verbal-abuse. An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume II, by John Locke is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series. Check more stories related to writing at: https://hackernoon.com/c/writing. You can also check exclusive content about #hackernoon-books, #humane-understanding, #john-locke, #philosophy, #essay, #humanity, #literature, #history, #hackernoon-es, and more. This story was written by: @johnlocke. Learn more about this writer by checking @johnlocke's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. 1. Remedies are worth seeking. The natural and improved imperfections of languages we have seen above at large: and speech being the great bond that holds society together, and the common conduit, whereby the improvements of knowledge are conveyed from one man and one generation to another, it would well deserve our most serious thoughts to consider, what remedies are to be found for the inconveniences above mentioned. 2. Are not easy to find. I am not so vain as to think that any one can pretend to attempt the perfect reforming the languages of the world, no not so much as of his own country, without rendering himself ridiculous. To require that men should use their words constantly in the same sense, and for none but determined and uniform ideas, would be to think that all men should have the same notions, and should talk of nothing but what they have clear and distinct ideas of: which is not to be expected by any one who hath not vanity enough to imagine he can prevail with men to be very knowing or very silent. And he must be very little skilled in the world, who thinks that a voluble tongue shall accompany only a good understanding; or that men's talking much or little should hold proportion only to their knowledge.