No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical category which is adequately and consistently handled in terms of linguistic symbolism.

The fact of the matter is that the 'real world' is to a large extent unconsciously built up on the language habits of the group.

More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment.

National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

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

A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him.

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