7. And languages change.
Hence also we may see the reason, why languages constantly change, take up new and
lay by old terms. Because change of customs and opinions bringing with it new combinations of ideas, which it is
necessary frequently to think on and talk about, new names, to avoid long descriptions, are annexed to them; and
so they become new species of complex modes. What a number of different ideas are by this means wrapped up
in one short sound, and how much of our time and breath is thereby saved, any one will see, who will but take the
pains to enumerate all the ideas that either reprieve or appeal stand for; and instead of either of those names, use a
periphrasis, to make any one understand their meaning.