Introduction to the sciences of modern linguistics: the nineteenth century: the era of history (linguistic Darwinism and historical positivism)

Abstract

The eighteenth century, as we told nineteenth-century scholars, paved the way for scientific comparison between languages. Much of what happened in that era, in various political, economic, cultural and other fields, and what would result from those serious incidents of similar change that would soon affect the intellectual conditions and scientific traditions that Europe had known until that time.