Select the passage that has a more authoritative tone.
Language is just a medium. It is like air to the creatures of the land or water to fishes. If it is perfectly clear, we do not notice it any more than we notice pure air.
Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them!
Adapted from Sherwin Cody, The Art of Writing and Speaking the English Language and Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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