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

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

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.

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

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.

One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.

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