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This document summarizes an article about how words were viewed as having power in the 13th century. It discusses how words were seen as more powerful than plants or stones according to a Latin proverb. However, most medieval writers argued that verbal magic or spells could only work through demonic powers, not natural powers, since language is a human convention. The document focuses on Roger Bacon as one thinker who argued words could have natural power based on cosmological principles. It also examines h
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