The art of selling Attractive homes and interest rates don't help a retailer/builder much, however, if salespeople treat customers like “lot lizards."

For Arrow, many socioeconomic phenomena are explained in terms of the dormitive principle, which, he says, simply repeats the phenomenon being explained.

A soft-breasted bird from the sea / Fell in love with the light-house flame; / And it wheeled round the tower on its airiest wing, / And floated and cried like a lovelorn thing;

In his version, the reader can almost hear wolves barking and see those icicled trees and wastes of snow. How much more vivid such pictures are in the mind than those produced by that vague, generalized language.