Saussure Ferdinand de. Course in General Linguistics

Edited by Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye in collaboration with Albert Riedlinger. Translated, with an introduction and notes by Wade Baskin. New York Toronto London. McGraw-Hill Book Company. - 123.
The second edition is essentially the same as the first. The editors have made some slight changes designed to facilitate reading and clarify certain points.
First something called "grammar" was studied. This study, initiated by the Greeks and continued mainly by the French, was based on logic. It lacked a scientific approach and was detached from language itself. Its only aim was to give rules for distinguishing between correct and incorrect forms; it was a normative discipline, far removed from actual observation, and its scope was limited. Next appeared philology.