The Critical Principle Demanded An Examination, For

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.

I’m Almost Never Serious, And I’m Always Too Serious. Too Deep, Too Shallow. Too Sensitive, Too Cold Hearted. I’m Like A Collection Of Paradoxes.

Everyone, Left To His Own Devices, Forms An Idea About What Goes On In Language Which Is Very Far From The Truth.

In General, The Philological Movement Opened Up Countless Sources Relevant To Linguistic Issues, Treating Them In Quite A Different Spirit From Traditional Grammar; For Instance, The Study Of Inscriptions And Their Language. But Not Yet In The Spirit Of Linguistics.

Henceforth, Language Studies Were No Longer Directed Merely Towards Correcting Grammar.