Herbert Spencer Quote

We have a priori reasons for believing that in every sentence there is some one order of words more effective than any other; and that this order is the one which presents the elements of the proposition in the succession in which they may be most readily put together.


Pt. I, sec. 3, "The Principle of Economy Applied to Sentences". - The Philosophy of Style (1852)


We have a priori reasons for believing that in every sentence there is some one order of words more effective than any other; and that this order is...

We have a priori reasons for believing that in every sentence there is some one order of words more effective than any other; and that this order is...

We have a priori reasons for believing that in every sentence there is some one order of words more effective than any other; and that this order is...

We have a priori reasons for believing that in every sentence there is some one order of words more effective than any other; and that this order is...