 | Victoria Institute (Great Britain) - 1878 - 564 pages
...observe DO footsteps in them of making use of general signs for universal ideas, fruw which we hare reason to imagine that they have not the faculty of...have no use of words or any other general signs." * The fact that the brute does not possess the degree of generalization required by Locke's illustration... | |
 | Ludwig Noiré - 1879 - 144 pages
...continues : — ' This I may be positive in, that the power of abstraction is not at all in brutes, so that the ha.ving of general ideas is that which puts...have no use of words, or any other general signs.' ' This power of abstraction, or having general ideas, Max Miiller continues, is realised by means of... | |
 | John Locke - 1879 - 722 pages
...the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to. For it is evident we observe no footsteps in them of making use of general signs for universal ideas...they have no use of words or any other general signs. 11. Nor can it be imputed to their want of fit organs to frame articulate sounds, that they have no... | |
 | Sir Thomas Elyot - 1883 - 680 pages
...the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to; for it is evident we observe no footsteps in them of making use of general signs for universal ideas...have no use of words, or any other general signs.' — Works, vol. ip 275, ed. 1854. • ' If we had nought but Sense, each liuing wight Which we call... | |
 | Sir Thomas Elyot - 1883 - 682 pages
...the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to ; for it is evident we observe no footsteps in them of making use of general signs for universal ideas...which we have reason to imagine that they have not the facuhy of abstracting, or making general ideas, since they have no use of words, or any other general... | |
 | Max Muller - 1885 - 526 pages
...that as yet no animal has been discovered in the possession of language, 'not even the beaver, who of all the animals we know, that are not, like the...therefore, the science of language gives us an insight iuto that which, by common consent distinguishes man from all other living beings ; if it establishes... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1887 - 738 pages
...the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to. For, it is evident, we observe no footsteps in them of making use of general signs for universal ideas...have no use of words, or any other general signs.' And a little further on : ' And therefore, I think, we may suppose, that it is in this that the species... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1887 - 362 pages
...the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to. For, it is evident, we observe no footsteps in them of making use of general signs for universal ideas...have no use of words, or any other general signs." And a little further on: " And therefore, I think, we may suppose, that it is in this that the species... | |
 | George John Romanes - 1888 - 488 pages
...chapters ix. and x. of Mental Evolution in Animals. to. For it is evident we observe no footsteps in them of making use of general signs for universal ideas...have no use of words, or any other general signs. "Nor can it be imputed to their want of fit organs to frame articulate sounds that they have no use... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1897 - 466 pages
...faculties of brutes do by no means attain unto. For, it is evident we observe no foot-steps in them of making use of general signs for universal ideas;...have no use of words or any other general signs." And a little after. " Therefore, I think, we may suppose that it is in this that the species of brutes... | |
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For it is evident, we observe no footsteps in them of making use of general signs, for universal ideas ; from which we have reason to imagine, that they have not the faculty of abstracting, or making general ideas, since they have no use of words or any... 
