Mentalism and objectivism in linguistics

My original purpose in writing this book was to trace the history of a certain view of language from Lazarus Geiger (1829-1870) through Max Meyer (1873-1967) and Albert P. Weiss (1879-1931) to Leonard Bloomfield (1887-1949), and this has remained my main intention. But while the transmission from Geiger to Bloomfield was remarkably specific, the ideas involved were part of a general intellectual development, the main features of which it has seemed to me appropriate to sketch as background for the more special history
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