[…] there is not a language in the world which does not exist in the condition of dialectic division […].
- Whitney (1875), a pag.175

It is possible […] to believe that language actually began in a condition of infinite dialectic division, and has been from the outset tending toward concentration and final unity. But that is possible only by a total failure to comprehend the forces that are at work in the growth of language, and the modes of their interaction.
- Whitney (1875), a pag.177