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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.508
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Kahan, A.S. (2003). The Decline of Liberalism. In: Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403937643_6
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