About the Book: Rogets International Thesaurus, 8th Edition
The revolutionary achievement of Dr. Roget was his development of a brand new
principle: the grouping of words according to ideas. If the user cannot find
something in a reference book, it is often because of the restriction of
searching alphabetically by 'known headwords. Dr. Rogets thesaurus thus reversed
the access to allow the user to find a word from another word, a concept or an
idea. When in 1852 Roget published the first book ever to realize this concept
with thoroughness and precision, he called it a "thesaurus" (from the Greek and
Latin, meaning "treasury" or