The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things.
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Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.Giambattista Vico
Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance.
Giambattista Vico
Metaphysics abstracts the mind from the senses, and the poetic faculty must submerge the whole mind in the senses. Metaphysics soars up to universals, and the poetic faculty must plunge deep into particulars.
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Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.
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The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.
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