Proto-pragmatic insights were excluded from serious philosophical consideration until the end of the 18th century. It can be argued, as in the first part of the book, that pragmatics was conceived between 1780 and 1830 in Britain, but also in Germany and in France in post-Lockian and post-Kantian philosophies of language. The second part of the book looks at pragmatic insights made between 1830 and 1880, once more relegated to the philosophical and linguistic underground. In the last part the period between 1880 and 1930 is presented, when pragmatic insights flourished and were sought after systematically.