Note 82 — Chapter XVII · PROGRESS OR DECAY?
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In the realm of significations he sees the ‘humanization’ of language exclusively in the development of abstract terms. An important point of disagreement between Baudouin and myself is in regard to morphology, where he sees only ‘oscillations’ in historical times, in which he is unable to discover a continuous movement in any definite direction, while I maintain that languages here manifest a definite progressive tendency.