ABSTRACT
Words have two functions: on the one hand to state facts, and on the other to evoke emotions. The latter is their older function, and is performed among animals by cries which antedate language. One of the most important elements in the transition from barbarism to civilization is the increasing use of words to indicate rather than to excite, but in politics little has been done in this direction. If I say the area of Hungary is so many square kilometres, I am making a purely informative statement, but when I say that the area of the U.S.S.R. is one-sixth of the land surface of the globe, my statement is mainly emotional.
