Herein proper nouns differ from common. However derived, as _Smith_ is from
the man's office of smoothing, or _White_ from his color, the name soon
ceases to denote quality, and becomes really meaningless.]
+A _Common Noun_ is a name which belongs to all things of a class+.
+A _Proper Noun_ is the particular name of an individual+.
+Remark+.--It may be well to note two classes of common nouns--_collective_
and _abstract_. A +Collective Noun+ is the name of a number of things taken
together; as, _army_, _flock_, _mob_, _jury_. An +Abstract Noun+ is the
name of a quality, an action, a being, or a state; as, _whiteness_,
_beauty_, _wisdom_, (the) _singing_, _existence_, (the) _sleep_.
+A _Pronoun_ is a word used for a noun+. [Footnote: In our definition and
general treatment of the pronoun, we have conformed to the traditional
views of grammarians; but it may be well for the student to note that
pronouns are something more than mere substitutes for nouns, and that their
primary function is not to prevent the repetition of nouns.
1. Pronouns are not the names of things. They do not, like nouns, lay hold
of qualities and name things by them. They seize upon relations that
objects sustain to each other and denote the objects by these relations.
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