Essays on Life 



babblings, and the cases in which a person is 

 regarding him or herself, as it were, from out- 

 side, and treating himself as though he were 

 some one else. 



Inquiring, then, what are the essentials, 

 the presence of which constitutes language, 

 while their absence negatives it altogether, 

 we find that Professor Max Miiller restricts 

 them to the use of grammatical articulate 

 words that we can write or speak, and denies 

 that anything can be called language unless 

 it can be written or spoken in articulate words 

 and sentences. He also denies that we can 

 think at all unless we do so in words ; that 

 is to say, in sentences with verbs and nouns. 

 Indeed he goes so far as to say upon his title- 

 page that there can be no reason which I 

 imagine comes to much the same thing as 

 thought without language, and no language 

 without reason. 



Against the assertion that there can be no 

 true language without reason I have nothing 

 to say. But when the Professor says that 

 there can be no reason, or thought, without 



language, his opponents contend, as it seems 



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