Contributions to the History of the Development of the Human Race: Lectures and DissertationsTrübner & Company, 1880 - 156 pages |
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... linguistic science . As Columbus , urged on by an irresistible impulse which made him overcome all doubts and surmount all diffi- culties , went in quest of the western hemisphere , so Anquetil du Perron , from 1754 , searched for the ...
... linguistic science . As Columbus , urged on by an irresistible impulse which made him overcome all doubts and surmount all diffi- culties , went in quest of the western hemisphere , so Anquetil du Perron , from 1754 , searched for the ...
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... linguistic archæology , the results of which I hope soon to publish in the second volume of my work on the Origin of Language and Reason . Man had language before he had tools , and before he practised industrial arts . This is a ...
... linguistic archæology , the results of which I hope soon to publish in the second volume of my work on the Origin of Language and Reason . Man had language before he had tools , and before he practised industrial arts . This is a ...
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... linguistic law must appear the more surprising as the implements which are not tools are wont to be desig- nated genetically , or passively , as it were , according to the material of which they are made or the work that produced them ...
... linguistic law must appear the more surprising as the implements which are not tools are wont to be desig- nated genetically , or passively , as it were , according to the material of which they are made or the work that produced them ...
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... linguistics teach us to trace back the condition of highly civilised nations to the lowest stage of culture still to be met with among one or the other savage tribe , and lets us recognise a universal law where IN THE LIGHT OF LANGUAGE .
... linguistics teach us to trace back the condition of highly civilised nations to the lowest stage of culture still to be met with among one or the other savage tribe , and lets us recognise a universal law where IN THE LIGHT OF LANGUAGE .
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... linguistic science meet most decidedly those of physics and physiology . In returning to the subject of colour - sense , I should like to try and unroll before you , in however concise a completeness , the picture which I have gathered ...
... linguistic science meet most decidedly those of physics and physiology . In returning to the subject of colour - sense , I should like to try and unroll before you , in however concise a completeness , the picture which I have gathered ...
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