Excerpt from Three Lectures on the Science of Language, Delivered at the Oxford University Extension Meeting: With a Supplement, My Predecessors Here seems to be some truth after all in the old English saying that familiarity breeds contempt, or, at all events, indifference. There is nothing we are more familiar with than our own language. We learn it, we hardly know how. While reading, writing, arithmetic, and all the rest, are not acquired without considerable effort, and are often forgotten again in later life, we ...
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Excerpt from Three Lectures on the Science of Language, Delivered at the Oxford University Extension Meeting: With a Supplement, My Predecessors Here seems to be some truth after all in the old English saying that familiarity breeds contempt, or, at all events, indifference. There is nothing we are more familiar with than our own language. We learn it, we hardly know how. While reading, writing, arithmetic, and all the rest, are not acquired without considerable effort, and are often forgotten again in later life, we learn our most difficult lesson, namely, speaking, without any con scious effort, and, however old we may grow, we never forget it again. But I ask you, Have you ever tried to find out what this language of ours really is; how it came to us; when and where it was made; and what it was made of? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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