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Wilhelm von Humboldt On Language (1767-1835)

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Source: Humboldt. On Language, On the Diversity of Human Language Construction and its Influence on the Mental Development of the Human Species. Edited by Michael Losonsky, CUP 1999, pp. 25-64 reproduced here. In every survey of world-history there is a progress, also alluded to here. But it is by no means my intention to set up a system of purposes, or process of perfection extending ad infinitum; on the contrary, I am to be found here on an entirely different path. Peoples and individuals proliferate vegetatively, as it were, like plants, spreading across the earth, and enjoy their existence in happiness and activity. This life that dies away in every individual goes on undisturbedly, without regard to effects for the centuries that follow; nature’s determination that everything which breathes shall complete its course to the last gasp, the purpose of beneficent ordering goodness, that every creature shall attain to enjoyment of its life, is carried out, and each new generation runs

Wilhelm von Humboldt On Language (1767-1835) Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835) On Language Source : Humboldt. On Language, On the Diversity of Human Language Construction and its Influence on the Mental Development of the Human Species . Edited by Michael Losonsky, CUP 1999, pp. 25-64 reproduced here. �3. The Course of Man’s Development In every survey of world-history there is a progress, also alluded to here. But it is by no means my intention to set up a system of purposes, or process of perfection extending ad infinitum; on the contrary, I am to be found here on an entirely different

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