In the Classical period, language in its raw state that mass of signs impressed upon the world in order to exercise our powers of interrogation vanished from sight, but language itself entered into new relations with being, ones more difficult to grasp, since it is by means of a word that language expresses being and is united to it; it affirms being from within itself; and yet it could not exist as language if that word, on its own, were not, in advance, sustaining all possibility of discourse.