[74] See É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Comptes Rendus des Séances de l’Académie des Sciences, vol. iv, p. 261.
[75] See Flourens, Histoire des Travaux de Buffon, 1844, p. 135. Descartes made use of the absence of speech in animals as a strong argument against them.
[76] See Gratiolet, Bulletins de la Soc. d’Anthropologie de Paris, 18 April, 1861.
[77] See J. Grimm, De l’Origine du Langage, transl., 1859, p. 53.
[78] Traité de l’Origine du Langage, Engl. transl., 1827, p. 6.
[79] De l’Origine du Langage, transl., 1859.
[80] De l’Origine du Langage, 2nd edit., 1858.
[81] It is by tracing, according to custom, effects to their causes, that the Buddhist philosophy arrives at the principles of joint responsibility, which, according to it, unites reason to language, making them mutually flow one from the other. “Name and form have as a cause, intellect, and intellect has for a cause, name and form.”—See Burnouf, Le Lotus de la bonne loi, p. 550. Mercurius Trismegistus, in the Pimander (Pimander, De sapientiâ et potestate Dei), says almost the same thing: “Speech is the sister of intellect; intellect is the sister of language.” See Rechtenbach, De Sermone Brutorum, 1706, p. 2.
[82] See De l’Origine du Langage, transl., 1859.
[83] De l’Origine du Langage, 1858, p. 31.