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appropriate pantomimic action, which was itself recalled by the 
return of the particular circumstance or idea. 
Thus, not at random, but designedly, in the first instance, 
may we suppose that man used sound linguistically and 
strengthened it by gesture ; and, as he had a reason for his 
first step, so had he a still stronger reason for his second ; and 
his first sound in any particular line of idea being thus 
definitely determined, his second, in the same line, was 
naturally, in the great majority of instances, a repetition of 
the former. 
LANGUAGE, AND THEORIES OF ITS ORIGIN. 
Synopsis. 
1. Parallel and connexion between Language and Beligion. 
2. Language, what. 
3. Language a natural development. 
4. Primeval Language unknown. 
5. Errors of the Conventional (Anomalistic) and Connexional (Analo- 
. gistic) Theories of Language. 
6. The Platonic view of Language. 
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7. The Divisions of Language. 
8. The Divisions of Articulate Speech. 
9. The Transition from Drawing to Writing. 
10. The Principle of Limitation of Choice in Original Names. 
11. Children and the Origin of Language. 
12. The “Sinuous” Theory of Language. 
13. The “ Co-operative ” Theory of Language. 
14. Further Examination of Prof. Noire’s Views. 
15. Present position of the Onomatopoetic Theory of Language. 
16. Occult Imitation. 
