There is no subject so deeply interesting and important to rational beings asthe knowledge of language or one which presents a more direct and powerfulclaim upo... » 

There is no subject so deeply interesting and important to rational beings asthe knowledge of language or one which presents a more direct and powerfulclaim upon all classes in the community for there is no other so closelyinterwoven with all the affairs of human life social moral political andreligious. Excerpt from Preface «