 | Geology - 1861 - 746 pages
...before he could have attained that power. Among the many facts which attest the high antiquity of Han, the formation of language may be adduced, and in the...facts which it yields. " Language is not innate, but adventitious—a mere acquirement, having its origin in the superiority of the human understanding,... | |
 | WILLIAM JOHN JOHSON - 1861 - 642 pages
...language as one of the many facts which attested the high antiquity of man. Language, he said, was not innate, but adventitious — a mere acquirement,...origin in the superiority of the human understanding. The prodigious number of languages was given as a proof that language was not innate, and their extraordinary... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1861 - 144 pages
...the many facts which attested the high antiquity of man was the formation of language. Language was not innate, but adventitious — a mere acquirement,...origin in the superiority of the human understanding. The prodigious number of languages which existed was one proof that language was not innate, some with... | |
 | Christian union - 1861 - 1264 pages
...language as one of the many facts which attested the high antiquity of man. Language, he said, was not innate, but adventitious — a mere acquirement,...origin in the superiority of the human understanding. The prodigious number of languages was given as a proof that language was not innate, and their extraordinary... | |
 | John Kitto - Religion - 1862 - 522 pages
...language as one of the many facts which attested the high antiquity of man. Language, he said, was not innate, but adventitious — a mere acquirement,...origin in the superiority of the human understanding, The prodigious number of languages was given as a proof that language was not innate, and their extraordinary... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting - Science - 1862 - 776 pages
...the many facts which attested the high antiquity of man was the formation of language. Language was not innate, but adventitious — a mere acquirement,...origin in the superiority of the human understanding. The prodigious number of languages which existed was one proof that language was not innate, — some... | |
 | John Kitto - Religion - 1862 - 524 pages
...language as one of the many facts which attested the high antiquity of man. Language, he said, was not innate, but adventitious — a mere acquirement,...origin in the superiority of the human understanding, The prodigious number of languages was given as a proof that language was not innate, and their extraordinary... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1862 - 804 pages
...the many facts which attested the high antiquity of man was the formation of language. Language was not innate, but adventitious — a mere acquirement,...origin in the superiority of the human understanding. The prodigious number of languages which existed was one proof that language was not innate, — some... | |
 | John Duns - 1863 - 650 pages
...the many facts which attested the high antiquity of man, was the formation of language. Language was not innate, but adventitious — a mere acquirement,...origin in the superiority of the human understanding. The prodigious number of languages which existed was one proof that language was not innate, some with... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting - Science - 1862 - 796 pages
...the many facts which attested the high antiquity of man was the formation of language. Language was not innate, but adventitious — a mere acquirement, having its origin in the sunerioritv of the human understanding. The prodigious number of languages which existed was one proof... | |
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Language was not innate, but adventitious — a mere acquirement, having its origin in the superiority of the human understanding. The prodigious number of languages... 