2370. In short, one who is stuck fast in terms is stuck in material and bodily things and in so doing closes the way to inward ones. For those who regard terms as nothing, and in whom one does not feel any materialism, like those who have not dwelt on philosophical definitions of terms, the way is more open, or it can be opened more quickly. In the others, material things that close the ideas must first be shaken off. 1748, 20 June.