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Présentation de l'éditeur
Bbtweien the enunciated word upon the human lips and its correspondent idea in the human mind there is no natural and no necessary connection. Language, when viewed in the light of an invention, must be considered as i;he application of sound to the purposes of the conveyance of thought; and so viewed, appears the mightiest of a Uthe achievements of combining intellect. Considered, however, as a divine endowment, most strikingly simple, indeed, is the providential arrangement. The intellect might be stored with treasures of inestimable knowledge; the imaation may be all gorgeous with vivid imagery; the bosom may throb vrith heaving emotions; yet, without this magic key to unlock their sources, they must be suffocated in agonized silence. Man would be a virtual idiot, though endowed with the loftiest capacity, and a real hermit, though surrounded with the densest society. Yet, mark how ample the apparatus which Providence has adjusted to the most exalted purposes. The whole process is performed, the whole object is gfuned, by sound vox et preterea nihil. Within some prolific intellect awakes to new existence the eloquent thought, seizes the buoyant sound, and flits, a living messenger, a winged fancy, through liquid air, and descending upon the congenial organ, and melting into other minds, becomes a thrilling impulse to surrounding thousands.
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