Letters On the Philosophy of the Human Mind: Third Series
Letters On the Philosophy of the Human Mind: Third Series
Samuel Bailey
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My purpose in the present and some succeeding lectures, which by the kindness of your Principal, I shall have the opportunity of address- ing to you here, is to press on you something Digitized by Google LANGUAGE. 137 dijSFerent from this; namely, that not in books only, which all acknowledge, nor yet in connected oral discourse, but often also in words contem- plated each one apart from others, and by itself, there are boundless stores of moral and historic truth, and no less of passion and im...agination, laid up, — lessons of infinite worth which we may derive from them, if only our attention is awakened to their existence." — On the Study of Worda^ hy R. C. Trench^ page 1. Another writer of reputation speaks in the same strain : "A language," he says, "will often be wiser, not merely than the vulgar, but even than the wisest of those who speak it. Being like amber in its efficacy to circulate the electric spirit of truth,* it is also like amber in embalming and preserving * Unfortunately for this similitude amber, although an electric, is a non-conductor of electricity : it stops the circula- tion of the electric fluid.
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