ABSTRACT
Often the meaning of a sentence tacitly implies that the commutative law does not hold. We are all familiar with the passage in which Macaulay pointed out that, by using the commutative law because of exigencies of metre, Robert Montgomery unintentionally made Creation tremble at the Atheist’s nod instead of the Almighty’s. This use of the commutative law by writers of verse renders it doubtful whether, in the hymn-line: The humble poor believe,
