The fact that every mental state is intensified by expression is of a piece with the fact that nothing has any existence at all save in its expression.
Development
All things are like exposed photographic plates that have no visible image on them till they have been developed.
Acquired Characteristics
If there is any truth in the theory that these are inherited—and who can doubt it?—the eye and the finger are but the aspiration, or word, made manifest in flesh.
Physical and Spiritual
The bodies of many abandoned undertakings lie rotting unburied up and down the country and their ghosts haunt the law-courts.
Trail and Writing
Before the invention of writing the range of one man’s influence over another was limited to the range of sight, sound and scent; besides this there was trail, of many kinds. Trail unintentionally left is, as it were, hidden sight. Left intentionally, it is the unit of literature. It is the first mode of writing, from which grew that power of extending men’s influence over one another by the help of written symbols of all kinds without which the development of modern civilisation would have been impossible.