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between the indicative phase of hmguagc which we share with 

 the lower animals, and the truly predicative phase which 

 belongs only to man, there is no distinction of kind to be 

 attributed ; seeing that, on the contrary, whether we look to 

 the psychogenesis of the individual or to that of the race, 

 we alike find a demonstrable continuity of evolution from the 

 lowest to the highest level of the sign-making faculty. 



