ASSIM'IATIUN 11.; 



. speech reacted upon association. It definitely 

 marked off primitive man from all other species. I 

 came the <i ug character of the Ili.miimUe. 



M.-H I- ,-ame in.-n-a-ink'ly aware of their degrees of men- 

 tal an.l 1 1 resemhlance. T the new < 

 nels of c<>!immiii< ati.in opened up by the attainment of 

 ai-ti.-iil;ito speech, men hecame is of modes of 



B which forme.l the basis of resemhl 

 :in,l .lii'f- ive phenomenoi 



of various degrees and modes of awareness on the 



M'mhlinir iinlivi.lnnU that they are alike, is what 

 fessor Oiddings calK "Consciousness of Kin<i 

 There are distinct lovels of consciousness of kind, all the 

 way from the in, -ipi. -nt form of organic sympathy ai 

 animals, through the various modes of j*> >n of re- 



semblau sympathy, affection, and the d 



for recognition, to that -nmpli -tcness of refined fcM-linp 

 a ii.l ripeness of experience, the human consciousness of 

 kind 



The possession of articulate speech was for primitive 

 man a boon 1 estimation. Vrrl.nl .'nmmunication 



gave unity t<> the <-arl\ -muji life wliicli was of immense 

 ai\antaire ' m tli. t niggle with other species. Speech 

 enahled the in<livi<lual to <lrnw upon the experience of 



ace whene\ sources seemed inadequate 



for an ordeal. "A word is a vehicle, a boat Boating down 

 from the past, laden with the thought of men we i 

 saw; an.l in cnminir to understand it we not only 



the minds of our corn ^, l>nt into the gen- 



eral mind of humanity continuous through tim 

 Language, as the recorded stream of race experience, 



" C.iiMiBis, DfKTipfir* and ffitforfcv! florfolofy. pp. 184. 275. 

 "Oootty, C. H. Social Oryamisatio*. 1012, p. 69. 



