But this book is more than a guide to foreign languages; it goes deep into the roots of all knowledge as it explores the history of speech.
Without language no knowledge would be possible; here we see how language is at once the source and the reservoir of all we know..
It lights up the dim pathways of prehistory and unfolds the story of the slow growth of human expression from the most primitive signs and sounds to the elaborate variations of the highest cultures.
But this book is more than a guide to foreign languages; it goes deep into the roots of all knowledge as it explores the history of speech