What others said about Arabic Read in the original
On studying a language by reasoning rather than memory alone:
“The Arabic language above all seems to lend itself more readily than many others to this operation, whose instruments are analysis and synthesis; and I have sometimes been surprised to see how exactly the forms of this language answer to what clarity and precision of discourse require.”
Antoine-Isaac Silvestre de Sacy
1758–1838
Founder of modern French Arabic studies, first professor of Arabic at the École des langues orientales.
Original text — French
La langue Arabe sur-tout semble se prêter plus aisément que beaucoup d'autres à cette opération, dont les instrumens sont l'analyse et la synthèse ; et j'ai quelquefois été surpris en voyant combien les formes de cette langue sont dans un juste rapport avec ce qu'exigent la clarté et la précision du discours.
In Arabic
والعَرَبيّةُ خَاصَّةً تَبْدُو أَطْوَعَ مِنْ كَثِيرٍ مِنَ اللُّغَاتِ لِهَذَا العَمَلِ الَّذِي أَدَاتَاهُ التَّحْلِيلُ وَالتَّركِيبُ؛ وَلَقَدْ عَجِبْتُ أَحْياناً حِينَ رَأيتُ كَيْفَ تَأْتِي صِيَغُ هَذِهِ اللُّغَةِ عَلَى وَفْقٍ دَقِيقٍ لِمَا يَقْتَضِيهِ وُضُوحُ الكَلامِ وَدِقَّتُه.
Source
Grammaire arabe, t. I, Préface, Paris: Imprimerie impériale, 1810, p. vij
The English translation is Voice of Arabic's, made from the original.
'This operation' is studying a language by reasoning rather than memory alone.
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