ABSTRACT
A function to each organ, and each organ to its own function, is the law of all organization. Between its primitive state, in which it consisted of nothing but nouns, used to indicate ideas indiscriminately, and its present state, in which it consists of numerous “parts of speech”, the process of growth has been that of gradually separating words into classes; and just as fast as this process has advanced, has language become capable of completely fulfilling its end. To do its work well, an apparatus must possess special fitness for that work. Let us remember that the force by which a society, through its government, works out certain results, is never increased by administrative mechanisms, but that part of it escapes in friction. For when government fulfils the function here assigned it, of retaining men in the circumstances to which they are to be adapted, it fulfills the function which we on other grounds assigned it that of protector.
