"the grandest triumph of the human intellect"

Quote of the Week:

Language... is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity... It permeates all, the Past as well as the present, and is the grandest triumph of the human intellect.
~ Walt Whitman (1819-1892)