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.

No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality.

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.

Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand.

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

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.