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1891.] Language and Max Müller. 955 
He is like a blind would-be botanist who tries to picture 
trees by listening to the wind blowing through the branches. 
Attempt a word analysis of a single expression,—appearance 
of eyebrows, wrinkles, corrugations, depression or elevation of 
nose and mouth,—and reflect what cumbersomeness words entail 
upon thought. 
What words does the momentarily rapidly performed face 
reading require? You see expressions of myriad kinds flitting 
over faces,—you read them, but not in words. You cannot or do 
not analyze them. The unconscious association of the expression 
_ with an impression, true or false, which that expression makes 
upon your mind, it is impossible to put into words. 
Mill is referred to as making logic depend upon words. Now 
imagine the logical deduction of a soldier who sees a gun pointed 
at him, and hence reads himself an essay that ends in advising 
himself to dodge behind a tree. 
“ Dumb animals” cannot be denied thought, they do not even 
analyze consciously their impressions, yet they study conditions 
to advantage, make up their minds to act offensively or defensively 
without a word; the infant does pretty much the same, so do the 
deaf and dumb. 
Passing now to demonstrate facts, making a study of the 
machine instead of the noises it makes, it is well known to 
physicians that the seat of language in the brain in right-handed 
people is in the left side a little in front of and above the ear. In 
left-handed people the location is upon the corresponding right 
side of the brain. 
These facts have been ascertained by exceedingly simple means, 
an injury to those portions causing an interference with the speech 
function, sometimes to the extent of destroying it. This speech 
function may be wholly and totally obliterated by disease, and | 
yet the individual may be capable of transacting business, buying, 
selling, and directing his affairs generally and intelligently. He 
may make a will disposing of his property, he may think 
deeply and correctly, and yet be unable to express himself by 
speech; and on the other hand thought may be badly deranged 
and the speech faculty may remain intact. If language and 


