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what may be being done to him. As to external objects 

 and events, he can compare them and see some of the 

 relations in which they may stand to one another, 

 following up different lines of thought as he will. 



But such a power as this intellect of his, aware of all 

 these things and mentally present to them all, cannot be 

 made up of parts, but must be the most perfect and 

 simple unity we can conceive of. It cannot therefore be 

 either a material substance or a physical force, and still 

 less any combination of such substances and forces, to 

 which it presents the greatest contrast. Nevertheless 

 we each of us have also the structure, the faculties and 

 the feelings of a sort of ape. Therefore each of us is a 

 unity with two sets of faculties; (i) one essentially 

 sensuous and material, the source of all bodily functions 

 and animal feelings; the other (2) essentially intellectual 

 and immaterial, which can examine and judge the world 

 about it and also its own activities. 



LANGUAGE. Next we must consider that most funda- 

 mental and distinctive character of man as an intellectual 

 being namely, his power of speech and of making known 

 his meaning by intellectual gestures. 



We have noted* how the higher animals by vocal cries 

 and bodily movements, or gestures, can give expression 

 to the various different feelings by which they are ani- 

 mated; as also that human language is something entirely 

 different! therefrom. The time has now arrived for paying 

 direct attention to this very important subject. That it is 

 very important is manifest, for it is impossible for us to 

 make known our thoughts to others, save by the help of 

 bodily signs, vocal or other. But it is more important 



* See ante, p 1229. t See ante, p. 263. 



