88 MENTAL EVOLUTION IN MAN. 



LANGUAGE, OR SIGN-MAKING. 



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Or, neglecting the unintentional and merely imitative 

 signs as not, properly speaking, signs at all, every kind of 

 intentional sign may be represented diagrammatically as in 

 the illustration opposite. 



Now, thus far we have been dealing with matters of fact 

 concerning which I do not think there can be any question. 

 That is to say, no one can deny any of the statements which 

 this schema serves to express ; a difference of opinion can 

 only arise when it is asked whether the sundry faculties 

 (or cases) presented by the schema are developmentally 

 continuous with one another. To this topic, therefore, we 

 shall now address ourselves. 



First let it be observed that there can be no dispute 

 about one point, namely, that all the faculties or cases 

 presented by the schema, with the single exception of the 

 last (No. 7), are common to animals and men. Therefore we 

 may begin by taking as beyond the reach of question the 

 important fact that animals do present, in an unmistakable 

 manner, a germ of the sign-making faculty. But this fact is 

 so important in its relation to our subject, that I shall here 

 pause to consider the modes and degrees in which the faculty 

 is exhibited by animals. 



Huber says that when one wasp finds a store of honey, 



