 ... an instinct, an instinct of the mind, as irresistible as any other instinct. So far as language is the production of that instinct, it belongs to the realm of nature. Man loses his instincts as he ceases to want them. His senses become fainter when,...  Kleinere Schriften - Page 130by Theodor Benfey, Adalbert BezzenbergerLimited preview - About this book
 | New Church gen. confer - 1862 - 606 pages
...ceases to want them. His senses become fainter when, as in the ease of scent, they become useless. Thus the creative faculty which gave to each conception,...expression, became extinct when its object was fulfilled." (pp. 369, 370, 371.) Passing by for the moment the question of the extinction of this faculty, we have... | |
 | 1862 - 822 pages
...ceases to want them. His senses become fainter, when, as in the case of scent, they become useless. Thus the creative faculty which gave to each conception,...phonetic types must have been almost infinite in the beginning, and it was only through the same process of natural elimination which we observed in the... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1861 - 422 pages
...ceases to want them. His senses become fainter when, as in the case of scent, they become useless. Thus the creative faculty which gave to each conception,...phonetic types must have been almost infinite in the beginning, and it was only through the same process of natural elimination which we observed in the... | |
 | 1862 - 926 pages
...perceptions by onomatopoea : he possessed likewise, the faculty of giving more articulate expression to the rational conceptions of his mind. That faculty...time through the brain, a phonetic expression, became instinct when its object was fulfilled. Midler's theory is, doubtless, preferable to the imitation... | |
 | 1862 - 920 pages
...perceptions by onomatopoea ; he possessed likewise, the faculty of giving more articulate expression to the rational conceptions of his mind. That faculty...time through the brain, a phonetic expression, became instinct when its object was fulfilled. Miiller's theory is, doubtless, preferable to the imitation... | |
 | 1862 - 934 pages
...perceptions by onomatopoea ; he possessed likewise, the faculty of giving more articulate expression to the rational conceptions of his mind. That faculty...time through the brain, a phonetic expression, became instinct when its object was fulfilled. Muller's theory is, doubtless, preferable to the imitation... | |
 | 1862 - 1092 pages
...ceases to want them. His senses become fainter, when, as in the case of scent, they become useless. Thus the creative faculty which gave to each conception,...phonetic types must have been almost infinite in the begiuning, and it was only through the same process of natural elimination which we observed in the... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1862 - 454 pages
...ceases to want them. His senses become faints er when, as in the case of scent, they become useless. Thus the creative faculty which gave to each conception,...phonetic types must have been almost infinite in the beginning, and it was only through the same process of natural elimination which we observed in the... | |
 | 1862 - 500 pages
...ceases to want them. His senses become fainter when, as in the case of scent, they become useless. Thus the creative faculty, which gave to each conception,...phonetic types must have been almost infinite in the beginning, and it was only through this same process of natural elimination which we observed in the... | |
 | 1862 - 562 pages
...ceases to want them. His senses become fainter when, as in the case of scent, they become useless. Thus the creative faculty which gave to each conception,...expression, became extinct when its object was fulfilled." Having thus stopped the supply, the author next proceeds to dispose of the superfluous roots by a process... | |
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