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INDEX. 



brutes, lo, 177 ; on animal automatism, 

 II; on superiority of savage mind to 

 simian, 16 ; on absence in brutes of the 

 idea of causality, 58 ; on relation of 

 thought to speech, S3 ; on categories 

 of language, 85, 86 ; on rationality of 

 brutes, 87 ; on psychology of judgment, 

 165-167 ; on thought and reflection, 

 177, 178 



Mixed ideas. Sec Ideas 



Moffat, R,, on invention of languages by 

 children, 263 



Monboddo on the origin of speech, 240 



Monkeys, general intelligence of, 60, 61, 

 100, lOl ; discovering mechanical prin- 

 ciples, 60, 61, 213, 214; more intelli- 

 gent and imitative than parrots, 153; 

 recognizing pictorial representations, 

 188; imderstanding words, 369 ; using 

 stones to open oysters, 382 



Monosyllabic. Sec Languages 



Morality, alleged to distinguish man from 

 brute, 17-19, 346; terms relating to, 

 derived from ideas morally indifferent, 



346, 347 

 Morshead, E. J., on comparative psycho- 

 logy, 37 

 Moschkan, Dr. A., on talking birds, 130 

 Midler, F., on sign-making by bees, 90 

 Mil Her, J., on absence in brutes of the 



idea of causality, 58 

 Miiller, Professor Friedrich, on ideas, 45 ; 

 on language, as not identical with 

 thought, 83 ; on classification of lan- 

 guages, 245 ; on sentence-words, 296 ; 

 on undifferentiated language of child, 

 297 ; on origin of pronouns, 302 ; on 

 the genitive case, 305 ; on the origin of 

 speech, 362 

 Miiller, Professor F. Max, on ideas, 

 42, 43 ; on language as necessary to 

 thought, 81, 83; on psychology of 

 judgment, 165; on the copula, 173; 

 on origin of the personal pronoun, 210 ; 

 on evolution of language, 241 ; on 

 demonstrative elements, 244, 423 ; on 

 roots of Sanskrit, 267-289 ; on undiffer- 

 entiated language of young children, 

 296, 317 ; on sentence-words, 298-300, 



317 ; on gesture origin of pronouns, 

 302, and of language in general, 354 ; 

 on origin of adjectives, 306 ; on the 

 origin of verbs, 307 ; on Chinese 

 sintence-words, 317 ; on Aristotle's 

 logic as based on Greek grammar, 320, 

 321 ; on philology proving that human 

 thought has proceeded from the abstract 

 to the concre'e, 334-336 ; on names 

 necessarily implying concepts, 336, 337 ; 

 on fundamental metaphor, 344, 345 ; 

 on imperfection of early names, 356 ; 

 on the evolution of parts of speech, 

 423 ; on the general theory of evolu- 

 tion, 432, 433 



N 



Names, in relation to abstract and generic 

 ideas, 31, 32, 57, 58, 70-78, 174, 273- 

 28 1, 336-339; not always necessary 

 for thoughts, 81-83 > or thoughts for 

 them, 226, 336-339 



Natterer, J., on the languages of Brazil, 

 263 



Negro, intelligence of, 13 ; Mr. Mivart's 

 use of the term to illustrate the psycho- 

 logy of predication, 166, 235 



Neuter insects, instincts of, 297-299 



Nodier, on onomatopoeia, 288 ; on meta- 

 phor, 344 



Noire, on ideas, 43 ; on the origin of 

 speech, 288, 289, 379-381 ; 01: the 

 origin of pronouns, 302 ; on funda- 

 mental metaphor, 344, 345 



Nominalism, 145 



Noun-substantives, appropriately used by 

 parrots, 129, 152; early use of, by 

 children, 218; of earlier linguistic 

 growth than verbs or pronouns, 275 ; 

 not differentiated in early forms of 

 speech, 295 et seq. ; oblique cases of, 

 as attribute-words, 306, 385 



O 



Onomatopoeia, in nursery-language, 136, 

 244 ; in relation to the origin of speech, 

 282-293, 339 



