...sense experience. Language is reduced to "grammar," a set of "rules." "In due time," says Emerson, "the fraud is manifest, and words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections." 130 The language of poetry gives way to the language of insurance policies and the saccharine cliches...

...Nature, Emerson argues that when "duplicity and falsehood take the place of simplicity and truth . . . old words are perverted to stand for things which...employed, when there is no bullion in the vaults." 79. James, Pragmatism, 31-32. 80. 1 am thinking here of Nietzsche's analysis, in "Homer's Contest,"...