“All that the book…” — Alexander Bryan Johnson

A Treatise on Language: Or, The Relation which Words Bear to Things, in Four Parts (1836)

A Treatise on Language: Or, The Relation which Words Bear to Things, in Four Parts (1836)

The Philosophical Emperor, a Political Experiment, or, The Progress of a False Position (1841)

The Philosophical Emperor, a Political Experiment, or, The Progress of a False Position (1841)

The Philosophical Emperor, a Political Experiment, or, The Progress of a False Position (1841)

All that the book contains is the elucidation of but one precept: namely, to interpret language by nature. We [generally and incorrectly] reverse the rule and interpret nature by language.