[54] Schlegel.
[55] Wil. von Humboldt.
[56] Grimm.
[57] Renan.
[58] The Revelation of Language is supported in a book by J. S. Süssmilch, Berlin, 1766. An excellent review of the main opinions is given by R. W. Zobel, Gedanken über die verschiedenen Meinungen der Gelehrnten von Ursprunge der Sprachen. Magdeb. 1733.
[59] See Franck’s Dictionnaire des Sciences Philosophiques, Art. Signes. I must here again caution the reader that the view here supported is not the conventional theory of language condemned in the last chapter, although it might easily become so in the hands of a person inclined to look at the physiological rather than the psychological aspects of the question.
[60] This is an expression of F. Schlegel’s (Philos. Vorlesungen, p. 78-80). Renan also quotes the authority of Humboldt and Goethe.
[61] “Seht, es ist schwer zu denken auf welche Art man denkt.... Ich denke, und mit dem Zeuge, womit ich denke, soll ich denken wie dieses Zeug beschaffen sei,” &c.—Tieck, Blaubart, act. ii. sc. 1.
[62] We are, for instance, obliged entirely to pass over the question as to the Primum Cognitum, on which see Sir W. Hamilton’s Lectures, ii. 319-331.
[63] “One might be tempted to call Language a kind of Picture of the Universe, where the words are as the figures and images of all particulars.”—Harris’s Hermes, p. 330. This is something like Plato’s curious notion that words are a μίμησις of external things.—Heyse, System, s. 24. ἐοικέναι γὰρ τὰ ὀνόματα ... εἰκόσι τῶν ὁρατῶν.—Heraclitus, ap. Ammonium ad Arist. de Interp. p. 24. Democritus called them ἀγάλματα φωνήεντα.