2i8 THE ORIGIN OF HUMAN REASON. 



came upon a representation of a sheep with lambs, she 

 would point to the sheep and say, Mama-Ba^ while to 

 the lambs she would say, Ilda-Ba" Yet he ventures to 

 affirm that in her case " speech in the sense of formal 

 predication " had not begun. For our part, we consider 

 this most distinctly shows true intelligence and pre- 

 dication. Essentially there is no difference between 

 such an affirmation and the most abstruse mathematical 

 statement ever written down by a senior wrangler. 

 Prof. Preyer is quoted * as saying that it is " a very 

 general error " to suppose " all children on first beginning 

 to speak use substantives only, and later pass on to the 

 use of adjectives." Mr. Romanes's daughter "almost 

 contemporaneously" acquired the use of a few proper 

 verbs and prepositions. Yet he does not scruple to say 

 (as we have seen) that in her case " speech in the sense 

 of formal predication " had not begun ! Her earliest 

 gestures were, of course, very simple, but by the time 

 she had attained two and a half years, she had deve- 

 loped them into regular pantomime. " Coming into 

 the house, after having bathed in the sea for the 

 first time," she narrated her novel experience "by 

 first pointing to the shore, then pretending to take 

 off her clothes, to walk into the sea, and to dip : next, 

 passing her hands up her body to her head, she sig- 

 nified that the water had reached as high as her hair, 

 which she showed me was still wet. The whole story 

 was told without the use of a single articulate sound." 

 Mr. Romanes observes \ that " in its earliest stages, and 

 onwards through a considerable part of its history," this 

 * p. 219. t p. 221. 



