...accompanied by a corresponding development in language. "You have all heard of tbo process of tunnelling through a sandbank. In this operation it is impossible...and the power of excavation are not dependent on the words in the one case or the mason work in the other ; but without these subsidiaries neither process...

...the establishment of fortresses. Words are the fortresses of thought. In tunneling through a sandbank it is impossible to succeed unless every foot, nay,...the tunnel. The power of thinking and the power of excavating are not dependent ately thought as common to many individual things: self-luminous, sparkling,...

...difficult, more comprehensive, and more abstract idea, 'animal.' In this way we may say, with Hamilton : " Language is to the mind precisely what the arch is...power of thinking and the power of excavation are not «Vpr««friit on die void in the one case, on the •ason-vork in the other; bat without these subsidiaries...

...difficult, more comprehensive, and more abstract idea, ' animal '. In this way we may say, with Hamilton : " Language is to the mind precisely what the arch is...to the tunnel. The power of thinking and the power 1 According to logicians a general name denotes certain things (members of a class) and connotes certain...

...still beyond. Or another illustration : You have all heard of the process of tunnelling, of tunnelling through a sand-bank. In this operation it is impossible...power of excavation are not dependent on the word in one case, on the mason-work in the other : but without these subsidiaries, neither process could be...

...tunnelling through a sandbank. In this operation it is impossible to succeed imkss every foot — nay every inch — in our progress be secured by an arch...Now language is to the mind precisely what the arch it to the tunnel. The power of thinking and the power of excavation are not dependent on the word in...

...intellectual conquest the basis of operations for others still beyond. ... In tunnelling through a sandbank it is impossible to succeed unless every foot, nay...the mind precisely what the arch is to the tunnel." If any critic of our assertions is so stubborn as to demand proof, not only that there is a Sense of...

...enable us to reinstate 68 past experiences, they conserve for us the results of our analytic activity. " Language is to the mind precisely what the arch is...power of excavation are not dependent on the word in one case, or the mason-work in the other ; but without these subsidiaries neither process could be...

...enable us to reinstate past experiences, they conserve for us the results of our analytic activity. " Language is to the mind precisely what the arch is...power of excavation are not dependent on the word in one case, or the mason-work in the other ; but without these subsidiaries neither process could be...

...sandbank. In this operation it is impossible to succeed unless every foot, nay, almost every inch of our progress be secured by an arch of masonry before...and the power of excavation are not dependent on the words in the one case or on the mason- work in the other; but without these subsidiaries neither could...