Child Labor Vocabulary

is not necessarily to say that its ‘soul’ is completely different from our own—indeed, if it were, it is hard to see how we could hope to understand it. Schleiermacher in the early nineteenth century set out the project in ambitious terms: The vocabulary and the history of an author’s age together form a whole from which his writings must be understood as a part. (Schleiermacher 1978, p. 113) And we shall find such attempts to understand the part from the whole, for example, in Netz’s study (1999