For truth lies hid, but nothing is more precious than truth.

But you will say, 'How can there be any certain origin to names, when one and the same thing is called by different names, in the several parts of the world ?' I answer, of the same thing there may be different causes, of which some people may regard one, and others, an other.

* * * There is therefore no doubt, that of all things, even of words, a reason is to be rendered: and if we know not what that reason is, when we are asked; we ought rather to confess that we do not know, than to affirm that none can be given.

I know that Scaliger thinks otherwise; but this is the true account of the matter." 21.

"These several observations," he remarks further, "I have unwillingly brought together against those stubborn critics who, while they explode reason from grammar, insist so much on the testimonies of the learned.