The deeper the divisions, and the more impassable the barriers of society become, the more must this be the case.

I would lay a wager, that amongst the castes of India there are amazing variations of language, and that there is almost as much difference between the language of the pariah and that of the Brahmin as there is in their dress.

When, on the contrary, men, being no longer restrained by ranks, meet on terms of constant intercourse--when castes are destroyed, and the classes of society are recruited and intermixed with each other, all the words of a language are mingled.
Those which are unsuitable to the greater number perish; the remainder form a common store, whence everyone chooses pretty nearly at random.
Almost all the different dialects which divided the idioms of European nations are manifestly declining; there is no patois in the New World, and it is disappearing every day from the old countries.
The influence of this revolution in social conditions is as much felt in style as it is in phraseology.

Not only does everyone use the same words, but a habit springs up of using them without discrimination.

The rules which style had set up are almost abolished: the line ceases to be drawn between expressions which seem by their very nature vulgar, and other which appear to be refined.