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A myth means a word , but a word which , from being a name or an attribute , has
been allowed to assume a more substantial existence . Most of the Greek , the
Roman , the Indian , and other heathen gods are nothing but poetical names , ...
A myth means a word , but a word which , from being a name or an attribute , has
been allowed to assume a more substantial existence . Most of the Greek , the
Roman , the Indian , and other heathen gods are nothing but poetical names , ...
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Lord Monboddo , for instance , admits that as yet no 1 " Man has two faculties , or
two passive powers , the existence of which is generally acknowledged ; 1 , the
faculty of receiving the different impressions caused by external objects , physical
...
Lord Monboddo , for instance , admits that as yet no 1 " Man has two faculties , or
two passive powers , the existence of which is generally acknowledged ; 1 , the
faculty of receiving the different impressions caused by external objects , physical
...
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Every part of nature , whether mineral , plant , or animal , is the same in kind from
the beginning to the end of its existence , whereas few languages could be
recognized as the same after the lapse of but a thousand years . The language of
...
Every part of nature , whether mineral , plant , or animal , is the same in kind from
the beginning to the end of its existence , whereas few languages could be
recognized as the same after the lapse of but a thousand years . The language of
...
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If we must compare language with a tree , there is one point which may be
illustrated by this comparison , and this is that neither language nor the tree can
exist or grow by itself . Without the soil , without air and light , the tree could not
live ; it ...
If we must compare language with a tree , there is one point which may be
illustrated by this comparison , and this is that neither language nor the tree can
exist or grow by itself . Without the soil , without air and light , the tree could not
live ; it ...
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Language cannot exist by itself ; it requires a soil on which to grow , and that soil
is the human soul . To speak of language as a thing by itself , as living a life of its
own , as growing to maturity , producing offspring , and dying away , is sheer ...
Language cannot exist by itself ; it requires a soil on which to grow , and that soil
is the human soul . To speak of language as a thing by itself , as living a life of its
own , as growing to maturity , producing offspring , and dying away , is sheer ...
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| Title | Lectures on the Science of Language Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain ...1861 [and 1863], Volume 1 Lectures on the Science of Language Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain ...1861 [and 1863], Friedrich Max Müller |
| Author | Friedrich Max Müller |
| Publisher | C. Scribner, 1866 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 12 Nov 2009 |
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