The Origin of Thought and Speech

by M. Moncalm

Was worn away or ever Nimrod’s race

Their unaccomplishable work began.’

“The oldest form of human speech still remains lost in the darkness of antiquity.”—Quoted from Dante in Ravenna by Miss Phillimore.

[106] Chips from a German Workshop, vol. i. p. 354.

[107] Atharva, XIII. 3. 13.

[108] Origin and Growth of Religion, p. 310.

[109] Origin and Growth of Religion, p. 312.

[110] Rothe in his “Stille Stunden,” Anthropological Religion, p. 16.

[111] Psalm xxxiii. 6; Isaiah xi. 4.

[112] Natural Religion, p. 164.