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ing of their minds so little that by common 

 consent we declare them to have no intelligence 

 at all. 



Before concluding I should wish to deal a 

 little more fully with Professor Max Miiller's 

 contention that there can be no reason with- 

 out language, and no language without reason. 

 Surely when two practised pugilists are fight- 

 ing, parrying each other's blows, and watching 

 keenly for an unguarded point, they are think- 

 ing and reasoning very subtly the whole time, 

 without doing so in words. The machination 

 of their thoughts, as well as its expression, is 

 actual I mean, effectuated and expressed by 

 action and deed, not words. They are un- 

 aware of any logical sequence of thought that 

 they could follow in words as passing through 

 their minds at all. They may perhaps think 

 consciously in words now and again, but such 

 thought will be intermittent, and the main 

 part of the fighting will be done without any 

 internal concomitance of articulated phrases. 

 Yet we cannot doubt that their action, how- 

 ever much we may disapprove of it, is guided 



by intelligence and reason ; nor should we 



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