Why is the title of chapter four "Gathering Earth's Daughters"?

I can't understand why Winchester chose to name this chapter like this.

Asked by ldelgado16@farragut2.org on 12 Aug 04:42

Last updated by Jill W on 14 May 13:35

Answered by Jill W on 14 May 13:35

From the text:

"I am not yet so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth and that things are the sons of heaven."

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary