Both French and Latin are involved with nationalistic and religious implications which could not be entirely shaken off, and so, while they seemed for a long time to have solved the international language problem up to a certain point, they did not really do so in spirit.

It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.

Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations.

It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd into an international language all those local overtones of meaning which are so dear to the heart of the nationalist.

What fetters the mind and benumbs the spirit is ever the dogged acceptance of absolutes.

Comparison of statements made at different periods frequently enable us to give maximal and minimal dates to the appearance of a cultural element or to assign the time limits to a movement of population.

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.