hypotheses to the best of our ability, and now offer the results at which we have arrived to the judgment of readers interested in that problem which we deem the most important one of our time-the problem which concerns the distinctness or non-distinctness as to nature, and therefore as to origin, of human reason. INDEX. A Adjectives and substantives, 248 Adoption of the easiest imaginations, Adumbration of higher natures in Adverbs and pronouns, 245 Africa, South, and children, 232 Agglutinative language, 231 Amalgamation of feelings not an idea, Ambiguity of phrase "Arise out of," of the term "conventional," 122 use of the term seen," 186 mann, 10 Analogy between flight and thought, indicates discontinuity in evolu- shaping stones, 292 Ants, tales of, 130, 131 tunnelling, and Mr. Belt, 76 Ape and principle of the screw, 86 -, psychical principle of, 73 Apes and children, 17 and primitive man, 33 -, gesture-signs of, 133, 135 Appearance, abstract idea of, 142 140 Appleyard, 274 Apposition in consciousness, 221, 256 257 with meaning may be assertion, 277 Aprons, etc., pulled by dogs, 132, 153, Aquinas, St. Thomas, 39, 57 Archdeacon Farrar, 235, 237, 240 "Arise out of," ambiguity of the Aristotelian system of philosophy, and man, 25, 31, 32, 200, 231, Buffon, and Dureau de la Malle, 25 Article of Prof. Max Müller in Articulate irrational sounds, 120 rational sounds, 121 signs said to be extended by ones, 244 the quickest and easiest Articulation and dog's tail, 152 not necessarily intellectual, 152 Articulus stantis vel cadentis ecclesia, Babbage's calculating machine, 175 talk, 206, 221, 222, 245, 263, 270 Bees practising funereal rites, 134 the question, 21 Beginning of language, 241 66 Being and Knowing," work of 271 as expressed in Hebrew, 251 and deaf-mutes, 145 and substantive verb, 249 Belt, Mr., and ants in conclave, 130 ants, 76 Besetting sin of our day, 299 Best language is the minimum that Bias of narrators of anecdotes of Bible, idea of, and ignorant deaf- Big-enough-to-be-worth-a-prolonged- Biological distinction as to poten- |