Note 24 — Chapter XXXI · KRATYLUS.
Reading edition
To illustrate the impossibility of obtaining any standard absolute and purely objective, without reference to any judging Subject, I had transcribed a passage from Steinthal’s work on the Classification of Human languages; but I find it too long for a note.
Steinthal, Charakteristik der Hauptsächlichen Typen des Sprachbaues, 2nd ed. Berlin, 1860, pp. 313-314-315.