3. And would be useless, if it were possible.
Secondly, If it were possible, it would yet be useless; because it
would not serve to the chief end of language. Men would in vain heap up names of particular things, that would
not serve them to communicate their thoughts. Men learn names, and use them in talk with others, only that they
may be understood: which is then only done when, by use or consent, the sound I make by the organs of speech,
excites in another man's mind who hears it, the idea I apply it to in mine, when I speak it. This cannot be done by
names applied to particular things; whereof I alone having the ideas in my mind, the names of them could not be
significant or intelligible to another, who was not acquainted with all those very particular things which had fallen
under my notice.
