 | John Theodore Merz - 1912 - 848 pages
...he quotes and maintains his dictum of 1861 ('Lectures on the Science of Language,' vol. ip 403) : " Language is our Rubicon, and no brute will dare to cross it." Referring to Schleicher, he says (p. 164) : " Professor Schleicher, though an enthusiastic livinc creation... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1899 - 486 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 least... | |
 | 1900 - 470 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 least... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1903 - 454 pages
...one great barrier between the brute and man Is language. Man speaks, and no brute has ever altered 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... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 530 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 least... | |
 | Charles Watts - 1905 - 224 pages
...replying to the inquiry, " What is the difference between the brute and man?" Max Miiller says : " Man speaks, and no brute has ever uttered a word. Language is our Eubicon, and no brute has ever crossed it." The following excerpt from the introduction to Agassiz's... | |
 | Robert William MacKenna - 1919 - 266 pages
...highest importance. According to him, " 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." This is, perhaps, a somewhat strong declaration. We may not be able to write... | |
 | 1897 - 1044 pages
...Miiller says in a famous passage : ' The one great barrier between the brute and man is language. Man speaks, and no brute has ever uttered a word. Language...our Rubicon, and no brute will dare to cross it.' 2 This is a remarkably dogmatic assertion. It entirely overlooks the fact that the sounds made by cats,... | |
 | Charles Darwin, Joy Harvey, Duncan M. Porter, Jonathan R. Topham - 1997 - 1018 pages
...animals arc separated by the barrier of language .Max Müller 1861. p. 340:: Man speaks, and no bruie has ever uttered a word. Language is our Rubicon, and no brute will dare со cross it. This is our matter of fact answer to those who speak of development, who think they... | |
 | Alexandra Maryanski, Jonathan H. Turner - 1992 - 240 pages
...great comparative linguist, wrote: "The one great barrier between the brute and man is language. . . . Language is our Rubicon, and no brute will dare to cross it" (p. 403; emphasis in the original). Thus, whether conceptualized as a unique and autonomous "language... | |
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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. 
