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Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science. – Edward Sapir

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The modern mind tends to be more and more critical and analytical in spirit, hence it must devise for itself an engine of expression which is logically defensible at every point and which tends to correspond to the rigorous spirit of modern science. – Edward Sapir

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It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them. – Edward Sapir

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Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. – Edward Sapir

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