Sound mind, or, Contributions to the natural history and physiology of the human intellect / by John Haslam.

Date:
1819
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Credit: Sound mind, or, Contributions to the natural history and physiology of the human intellect / by John Haslam. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    but these perceptions, recollected, and the objects which excited them absent, can only be communicated through the medium of significant sound. It may be a subject of curious inves- tigation, although foreign to our present enquiry, whether man, in possession of articulate organs, discovered speech, and imposed names on his perceptions; or whether he was originally gifted with this endowment. Without attempting to dis- cuss this question, it is sufficient to re- mark, that the structure and composition of our own language, and of its northern kindred, afford sufficient evidence of a very rude and necessitous origin. After man had acquired the means of communicating his perceptions by signi- ficant sounds, the next important disco- d 4