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the books of able botanists and zoologrists. 

 I pledge them my word that they will 

 never repent it, and, for my own part, I feel 

 how much I am indebted to such works as 

 Schleiden's " Science of Botany,"* Carl 

 Vogt's "Physiological Letters,"! &"c., for my 

 conception of the nature and life of speech. 



Those books were the first to teach me 

 the history of growth and development. 

 We may learn from the experience of the 

 naturalist, that nothing is of any im- 

 portance to science but such facts as have 

 been established by close objective ob- 



the side of those who are utterly ignorant of the nature of 

 human speech. Foreign coin is not necessarily base coin ; it 

 is at least entitled to a fair test. If a French " smasher " 

 offers us such a coin as " hihliophile" or " patoisopJdle," it 

 •will, of course, be refused by anybody who has not forgotten 

 his government of the Greek verbs. — T. 



* An English translation by E. Lankester was published 

 in 1849.— T. 



t " Physiologische Briefe fuer Gebildete aller Staende," 3 

 parts. Stuttgart and Tuebingen, 1845-47, Svo. — T. 



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