The birth of language / Richard Albert Wilson
| dc.contributor | Fee, Margery, 1948- Strathy Language Unit Queen’s University Kingston |
| dc.contributor.author | Wilson, Richard Albert |
| dc.coverage.placeName | [Toronto] |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-21T16:22:03Z |
| dc.date.available | 2022-08-21T16:22:03Z |
| dc.date.created | 1980 |
| dc.date.issued | 1991-09-09 |
| dc.identifier | ota:0594 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/0594 |
| dc.description.abstract | Originally published, London : J.M. Dent, 1937 |
| dc.format.extent | Text data (1 file : ca. 272 KB) |
| dc.format.medium | Digital bitstream |
| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Legacy Collection |
| dc.rights | Use of this resource is restricted in some manner. Usually this means that it is available for non-commercial use only with prior permission of the depositor and on condition that this header is included in its entirety with any copy distributed. |
| dc.rights.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/licence-ota |
| dc.rights.label | ACA |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Language and languages -- Origins |
| dc.subject.other | Languages |
| dc.title | The birth of language / Richard Albert Wilson |
| dc.type | Text |
| has.files | yes |
| branding | Oxford Text Archive |
| files.size | 277603 |
| files.count | 1 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1900-1999 |
Files for this item
- Name
- birth-0594.txt
- Size
- 271.1 KB
- Format
- Text file
- Description
- Version of the work in plain text format
SECTION I CLEARING THE WAY CHAPTER I THE AIM, AND THE METHOD OF TREATMENT But that same Where (Space), with its brother When (Time), are from the first the master-colours of our Dream-Grotto; the Canvas (the warp and woof thereof) whereon all our Dreams and Life-Visions are painted.---CARLYLE, <1Sartor Resartus,>1 1830. WHEN Kant in his investigation of the nature and validity of human knowledge in the <1Critique of Pure Reason>1 (1781) undertook an examination of the nature of Space and Time as the starting point in the discussion, he struck the path which all fruitful philosophical investigation has followed since. Since Space and Time are the two "forms' within which the whole system of life and nature unfolds itself to the human mind, and are at the same time the "warp and woof' on which man elaborates his mental sense-picture of the world, an examination of these two sense-forms should be the self-evident starting point in any true cosmic philo- sophy. Yet it seems to have t . . .
