INDEX. 



449 



Orang-outang. See Apes 

 Oregon, climate and native languages of, 

 262 



Palaeontology. See Geology 



Parrots, talking of, 128-138 ; use of in- 

 dicative signs by, 158; denotative and 

 connotative powers of, 1 79-191, 222- 

 226; statements made by, 189, 190 



Particular ideas. See Ideas 



Parts of speech, differentiation of language 

 into, 294-320, 339-342, 423 



Peckham, Mr. and Mrs., on memory in a 

 spider, 207 



Perception, analogies between reason and, 

 32 ; constituted by fusions of sensations, 

 37 ; in relation to other mental faculties, 

 48 ; illusions of, 49 



Perez on psychogenesis of the child, 26, 

 41, 158, 210 



Philippine language. See Language 



Philology. See Language 



Pickering on poverty of savage languages 

 in abstract terms, 352 



Pictures recognized as portraits, &c., by 

 infants, dogs, and monkeys, 188, 189 



Pig taught to point game, 97 



Poescher on the Aryan race, 273 



Pointing, game by a pig, 97 ; of setter- 

 dogs, 97, 98 J as the first stage of 

 language, 157, 158 



Polynesian languages. See Languages 



Polysynthetic. See Languages 



Pony, sign-making by, 97 



Pott, on the origin of speech, 240 ; on 

 language-roots, 267 ; on names for 

 thunder, 286 ; on fundamental meta- 

 phor, 344 



Powers on the climate of California, 261 



Pre-concepts, 185-193, 218, 219, 227- 

 230, 278, 384, 386 



Predicate, the, 305, 306, 423 



Predication, 88, 89, 157, 162-164, 169, 

 171, 175, 227, 235-237, 294 et seq,^ 

 3S4, 386, 387, 422 



Prepositions not differentiated in early 

 forms of speech, 295 et seq. 



Preyer, on psychogenesis of the child, 26, 

 219, 221, 222; on sensuous computa- 

 tion of number, 57, 58 

 Primates. See Apes and Monkeys 

 Pritchard on Celtic languages, 275 

 Progress in successive generations, 12-15 

 Pronoun, first personal, 201, 232, 301, 



387-389, 408, 409 

 Pronouns and pronominal elements, 2IO, 

 275 ; not differentiated in early forms 

 of speech, 295 et seq. ; origin of, in 

 gestures, 301-304, 387, 421, 422 

 Proposition. See Predication 

 Psychogenesis. See Child 

 Psychology. See Mind 



Quadrumana. See Apes and Monkeys 



R 



Radical. See Languages 



Ray on different tones used by the 

 common hen, 96 



Reason in relation to perception, 32 ; to 

 sensation, 37 ; and to other mental 

 faculties in general, 48 



Recepts, defined, 36-39 ; logic of, 40-69 ; 

 recognized by previous writers, 40-45 ; 

 in relation to the intellectual faculties, 

 48-50, 234 ; examples of, in the animal 

 kingdom, 51-63; as primitive as per- 

 cepts, 64-69 ; of water-fowl, 74 ; in re- 

 lation to judgment and self-conscious- 

 ness, 176-193 ; as higher and lower, 

 184-193; counting by, 214, 215; 

 naming by, 218, 219 ; of the framers of 

 Sanskrit, 277-279 ; philologically prior 

 to concepts, 343-349 



Reflection in relation to reflex action, 

 48. S:e also Thought 



Reflex action, 48 



Religion alleged to distinguish man from 

 brute, 17, 19, 346 



Renan on roots of Hebrew, 266 



Rengger on different tones uttered by 

 the cebus, 96 



