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.

English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of diplomacy or as Latin has proved to be as the international language of science.

We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.

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

Language is an anonymous, collective and unconscious art; the result of the creativity of thousands of generations.

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.

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.