In The Lives Of Individuals And Societies,

Outside Speech, The Association That Is Made In The Memory Between Words Having Something In Common Creates Different Groups, Series, Families, Within Which Very Diverse Relations Obtain But Belonging To A Single Category: These Are Associative Relations.

Written Forms Obscure Our View Of Language. They Are Not So Much A Garment As A Disguise.

It Is Useful To The Historian, Among Others, To Be Able To See The Commonest Forms Of Different Phenomena, Whether Phonetic, Morphological Or Other, And How Language Lives, Carries On And Changes Over Time.

The Critical Principle Demanded An Examination, For Instance, Of The Contribution Of Different Periods, Thus To Some Extent Embarking On Historical Linguistics.

The Very Special Place That A Language Occupies Among Institutions Is Undeniable, But There Is Much More To Be Said-, A Comparison Would Tend Rather To Bring Out The Differences.