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First it has not been established that the function of language, as manifested in speech is entirely natural that is to say it is not clear that our vocal apparatus is made for speaking as our legs for walking. Linguistics are by no means in agreement on this issue. Whitney for instance who regards languages as social institutions on exactly the same footing as all other social institutions holds it to be a matter a change or more convenience that it is our vocal ...
One of the main aims of this book is to explore how Mother Teresa became famous, how she handled fame and why she succeeded where many celebrated people from the worked of politics, entertainment and sport fail so often, some of them spectacularly. I found the answer to these and other important issues in Mother Teresa’s private life. This is not to say that this book is a biography. The biographical approach I follow throughout, the study is largely ...
In an enquiry embracing the history of motives, causes, and ends, it is often far less important to dwell on "leading" personalities and on the main tendencies of literary production, than to consider subsidiary movements and writers below the highest rank, and to trace, in apparently arid periods, processes which were often carried on, as it were, underground, or seemed to be such there are few, if any, isolated, phenomena; the voices may be voices ...