...we should not meet in either of those nations, a single individual who corresponded with the type. We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a.sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in a course of many hundred years has contributed...

...speaking of the bearing of phonology upon the study of literature, says, in the Nominalist and Realist : " We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure...sort of monument to which each forcible individual in the course of many hundred years has contribnted a stone ; and, universally, a good example of this...

...themselves, on the contrary, languages are the repositories of the ages: "We infer," said Emerson, " the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument in which each forcible individual in the course of many hundred years has contributed a stone." In...

...crisis and that the two may be organically connected."2 And then there is Schlesinger cum Emerson: "We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language."3 It would take a tome to explain why political language is so reviled. One explanation is...