Art and Science 



governed by and moulded in words, nor does 

 it steadily govern them. Words and thought 

 interact upon and help one another, as any 

 other mechanical appliances interact on and 

 help the invention that first hit upon them ; 

 but reason or thought, for the most part, flies 

 along over the heads of words, working its 

 own mysterious way in paths that are beyond 

 our ken, though whether some of our depart- 

 mental personalities are as unconscious of 

 what is passing, as that central government is 

 which we alone dub with the name of " we " 

 or " us," is a point on which I will not now 

 touch. 



I cannot think, then, that Professor Max 

 Miiller's contention that thought and lan- 

 guage are identical and he has repeatedly 

 affirmed this will ever be generally accepted. 

 Thought is no more identical with language 

 than feeling is identical with the nervous 

 system. True, we can no more feel without 

 a nervous system than we can discern certain 

 minute organisms without a microscope. 

 Destroy the nervous system, and we destroy 



feeling. Destroy the microscope, and we can 



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