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Until you have mastered the fundamental difference, in kind, between the / reason and the understanding as faculties of the human mind, you cannot / escape a thousand difficulties in philosophy. It is pre-eminently the / _Gradus ad Philosophiam_.
The general harmony between the operations of the mind and heart, and the / words which express them in almost all languages, is wonderful; whilst the / endless discrepancies between the names of _things_ is very well deserving / notice. There are nearly a hundred names in the different German dialects / for the alder-tree. I believe many more remarkable instances are to be / found in Arabic. Indeed, you may take a very pregnant and useful / distinction between _words_ and mere arbitrary _names of things_.