Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.

A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.

Of all social institutions language is least amenable to initiative. It blends with the life of society, and the latter, inert by nature, is a prime conservative force.

Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.

Without language, thought is a vague, uncharted nebula.

Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.

Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.