L. S. Amery
British statesman
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Language is only in part an individual instrument. It is in the main a community instrument used for community purposes. As such it tends to launch out on a career of its own, to which individuals contribute very much as the coral insect contributes to the growth of a coral reef or island.
—L. S. Amery, British statesman, Thought and Language, 1949
Posted on October 3, 1999 at 6:16 PM
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Language has been the master tool which man, in his endless adventure after knowledge and power, has shaped for himself, and which, in its turn, has shaped the human mind as we know it. ... Language, indeed, has been the soul of mankind.
—L. S. Amery, British statesman, Thought and Language, 1949
Posted on April 6, 1998 at 8:06 AM
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