The space which separates the word capio from percept and concept includes neither more nor less than the entire evolution of man; that is, our own history.
That of which we think so little is in reality the indelible sign impressed once for all on man, that which alone distinguishes him from the animals, and which may yet help to form in man an excellence hitherto unknown to us; this distinguishing mark is thought and speech.
We are men—but has the type of the “genus homo” been realised? Is it impossible?
It has been undoubtedly proved that man is free in certain directions, and not in others; happily he is not free not to be a man.
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FOOTNOTES:
[1] Max Müller, Science of Thought, p. 98.
[2] Thus Max Müller says: “In Chinese the number of imitative sounds is very considerable.... We give a few, together with the corresponding sounds in Mandshu. The difference between the two will show how differently the same sounds strike different ears, and how differently they are rendered into articulate language: