 Where, then, is the difference between brute and man? What is it that man can do, and of which we find no signs, no rudiments, in the whole brute world? I answer without hesitation: The one great barrier between the brute and man is language. Man speaks,...  Orators of continental Europe - Page 364edited by - 1903Full view - About this book
 | 1861 - 512 pages
...Yet, with all these faculties, brutes have not language. " Man speaks, and no brute has ever uttered a word. Language is our Rubicon, and no brute will...keep open the possibility that man is only a more favoured beast, the triumphant conqueror in the primeval struggle for life." Now to what mental difference... | |
 | 1861 - 516 pages
...Yet, with all these faculties, brutes have not language. " Man speaks, and no brute has ever uttered a word. Language is our Rubicon, and no brute will...keep open the possibility that man is only a more favoured beast, the triumphant conqueror in the primeval struggle for life." Now to what mental difference... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1861 - 422 pages
...one great barrier between the brute and man is Language. Man speaks, and no brute has ever uttered a word. Language is our Rubicon, and no brute will dare to cross it. This is our matter of fact answer to those who speak of development, who think they discover the rudiments at least... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1862 - 452 pages
...the one great barrier between the brute and man is Languap. Man speaks, and no brute has ever uttered a word. Language is our Rubicon, and no brute will...discover the rudiments at least of all human faculties in upes, and who would fain keep open the • Flourens, De In Raison, p. 51. f To allow that ' brutes... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1862 - 454 pages
...one great barrier between the brute and man is Language. Alan speaks, and no brute has ever uttered a word. Language is our Rubicon, and no brute will dare to cross it. This is our matter of fact answer to those who speak of development, who think they discover the rudiments at least... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1864 - 452 pages
...one great barrier between the brute and man is Language. Man speaks, and no brute has ever uttered a word. Language is our Rubicon, and no brute will...faculties in apes, and who would fain keep open the * Flourens, De la Raison, p. 51. f To allow that 'brutes have certain mental endowments in common with... | |
 | John Laws Milton - 1864 - 668 pages
...man and the brute. He utterly scouts the idea. "Man speaks," he says, "and no brute has ever uttered a word. Language is our Rubicon and no brute will...is our matter-offact answer to those who speak of such development as if it were established beyond all contradiction, who tli In Ic they discover the... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1866 - 506 pages
...one great barrier between the brute and man is Language. Man speaks, and no brute has ever uttered a word. Language is our Rubicon, and no brute will...keep open the possibility that man is only a more favoured beast, the triumphant conqueror in the primeval struggle for life. Language is something more... | |
 | Rev. Henry Greene - 1866 - 496 pages
...answer without hesitation : the one great barrier between brute and man is language. Man speaks — language is our rubicon, and no brute will dare to cross it. Language is the outward sign and realization of that inward faculty which is called abstraction," but... | |
 | John Selby Watson - 1867 - 518 pages
...have been brought to utter many words. " To those who speak of development," adds Professor Miiller, " who think they discover the rudiments at least of...keep open the possibility that man is only a more favoured beast, the triumphant conqueror in the primeval struggle for life," the decisive answer may... | |
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