Three Lectures on the Science of Language and Its Place in General Education: Delivered at the Oxford University Extension Meeting 1889, with a Supplement "My Predecessors", an Essay on the Genesis of the Idea of the Identity of Thought and Language in the History of Philosophy

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Open Court Publishing Company, 1890 - 112 Seiten
 

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Seite 19 - WISDOM crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets : she crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying, "How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
Seite 102 - ... understand; but the soul when thinking appears to me to be just talking — asking questions of herself and answering them, affirming and denying. And when she has arrived at a decision, either gradually or by a sudden impulse, and has at last agreed, and does not doubt, this is called her opinion. I say, then, that to form an opinion is to speak, and opinion is a word spoken, — I mean, to oneself and in silence, not aloud or to another: What think you?
Seite 48 - and phonological race are not commensurate, except in ante-historical times, or, perhaps, at the very dawn of history. With the migration of tribes, their wars, their colonies, their conquests and alliances, which, if we may judge from their effects, must have been much more violent in the ethnic than ever in the political periods of history, it is impossible to imagine that race and language should continue to run parallel.
Seite 49 - Physiologically the unity of the human species is a fact established as firmly as the unity of any other animal species. So much then, but no more, the philologist should learn from the physiologist.
Seite 92 - I could speak to myself in no language at all is^too absurd to be even suggested. The results which the Science of 'Language has arrived at, and which are by no means so startling as has been supposed, are shortly these : — We have sensations without language, and some of these sensations may produce in men, as well as in animals, involuntary cries. We have perceptions or images without language, and some of these may be accompanied by gestures or signs, such gestures and signs being often intelligible...

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