...a violent reaction against literary style, especially in the serious business of argumentation: If we would speak of things as they are, we must allow that all the art of rhetoric, besides order and clarity; all the artificial and figurative application of words eloquence hath invented, are for nothing...

...precise meaning. This solution hardly rehabilitates rhetoric, however. Locke in fact charges that "if we would speak of Things as they are, we must allow, that all the Art of Rhetorick, besides Order and Clearness, all the artificial and figurative application of Words Eloquence...

...poetry."28 Wit and Fancy finds easier entertainment in the World, than dry Truth and real Knowledge ... if we would speak of Things as they are, we must allow, that all the Art of Rhetorick, besides Order and Clearness, all the artificial and figurative application of Words Eloquence...

...for example, in John Locke's An Essay on Human Understanding (1690): [...] all the Art of Rhetorick, besides Order and Clearness, all the artificial and figurative application of Words Eloquence hath invented, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong Ideas, move the Passions, and therby mislead...

...language noted in a passage of John Locke's, who in Essay Concerning Human Understanding writes: If we would speak of things as they are, we must allow...artificial and figurative application of words eloquence hath invented, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead...

...besides Order and Clearness, all the artificial and figurative application of Words Eloquence hath invented, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong...and thereby mislead the Judgment; and so indeed are perfect cheat. . . . 'Tis evident how much Men love to deceive, and be deceived, since Rhetorick, that...

...arts of deceiving, wherein men find pleasure to be deceived." Artificial and figurative expressions "are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas,...move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment" (III, 146-7.) At least twice in Human Understanding he tells us that to use gold, the name of a metal,...

...'Wit and Fancy', leaving little doubt on which side of the divide true philosophy (science) fell: 'if we would speak of Things as they are, we must allow, that all the Art of Rhetorick, besides Order and Clearness, all the artificial and figurative application of Words Eloquence...

...implication, identifies with the unassisted senses ill equipped to make accurate observations: 'But yet, if we would speak of Things as they are, we must allow, that all the Art of Rhetorick, besides Order and Clearness, all the artificial and figurative application of Words Eloquence...

...contains (in Book three) a sustained attack upon any kind of 'figurative' speech. It exists, he writes for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgement .... in all discourses that pretend to inform or instruct, wholly to be avoided.12 What this...