007_College lectures; Page 4

second, to get rid of irregular and
exceptional forms by extending the
prevailing analogies of the language"

All "orthoepists" look up.

"A language is living, where it is the installment
of thought of a whole people, the
wanted means of expression of all their
feelings, experiences, opinions, reasonings;
when the connection between it
and their mental activity is so close
that the one reflects the other, and
that the two grow together, the instrument
ever adapting itself to the
uses which it is to [suport?]

Lecture II

"Language has, in fact, no [separate - crossed out] existence
save in the minds and mouths of those
who use it; it is made up of separate articulated
signs of thought, each of which is uttered