 | 1861 - 516 pages
...intellect may be unhesitatingly applied. Yet, with all these faculties, brutes have not language. " Man speaks, and no brute has ever uttered a word. Language...Rubicon, and no brute will dare to cross it. This is our matter-offact answer to those who speak of development, who think they discover the rudiments at least... | |
 | 1861 - 512 pages
...intellect may be unhesitatingly applied. Yet, with all these faculties, brutes have not language. " Man speaks, and no brute has ever uttered a word. Language...Rubicon, and no brute will dare to cross it. This is our matter-offact answer to those who speak of development, who think they discover the rudiments at least... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1862 - 452 pages
...world ? I answer without hesitation : the one great barrier between the brute and man is Languap. Man speaks, and no brute has ever uttered a word. Language...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... | |
 | John Laws Milton - 1864 - 668 pages
...possibility of a transition between man and the brute. He utterly scouts the idea. "Man speaks," he says, "and no brute has ever uttered a word. Language is...Rubicon and no brute will dare to cross it. This is our matter-offact answer to those who speak of such development as if it were established beyond all contradiction,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | David Page - 1867 - 238 pages
...brute-world ? I answer without hesitation : the 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 has ever crossed it." To all such averments as the preceding, however plausibly or decidedly put, there... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1868 - 394 pages
...answer, without hesitation, the one great barrier between the brute and the man is language. Man speaks; no brute has ever uttered a word. Language is our Rubicon, and no brute will ever dare to cross it," &c. thus shows how language has gained its greatest triumphs : — " The idea... | |
 | George Palmer - 1879 - 286 pages
...world? I answer without hesitation : the one great barrier between the brute and man is Language. Man speaks, and no brute has ever uttered a word. Language...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... | |
 | Michael Maher - 1890 - 612 pages
...differentia. Thus, Max Miiller asserts that : " The one great barrier between man and brute is Language. Man speaks, and no brute has ever uttered a word. Language...our Rubicon, and no brute will dare to cross it." (Lectures on the Science of Language. First Series, p. 340.) Professor Whitney is also very emphatic... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1891 - 636 pages
...reasoning (r<5 dvaiu/ivrjanfaBai tart oTov 6s TIS). — Asa Grey, Natural Selection, &c. p. 58, note. speaks, and no brute has ever uttered a word. Language...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... | |
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The 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. 
