Preface -- Introduction -- The Past up to the Introduction of Neogrammarian Thought: Whitney and Europe -- Linguistics as a Science: The Case of the Comparative Method -- Bréal vs. Schleicher: Linguistics and Philology during the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century -- Aspirations, Organization, Achievement -- Linguistics in America 1924-1974: A Detached View -- Discussion of the Papers by Yakov Malkiel and by E. M. Uhlenbeck -- The Twentieth Century in European and American Linguistics: Movements and Continuity -- Index of Names.