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If, now, we ask in what this wonderful and priceless gift of the human race consists, and in what manner it is produced, we obtain an answer which gives us a fresh example of the humble means by which in nature the greatest and most important results are obtained.
If we analyze Speech, we find that it is nothing more than a combination of separate sounds; that these sounds are noises which are produced by the expired air, with which tones of a musical kind, produced by the same means, can unite as Supplementary components.
The power of producing sounds by the current of expired air is by no means a peculiar property of man kind; rather it is possessed in a more or less pronounced form by all vertebrata performing respiration by means of lungs; the noises thus produced being used by them, partly to give expression to their feelings, partly to make communications to each other. What an immense differ ence between the sounds and the meaning attached to them, in the angry hiss of a snake and the song of a nightingale, in the warning whistle of a marmot and the various accents of the bay of a hound!
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If, now, we ask in what this wonderful and priceless gift of the human race consists, and in what manner it is produced, we obtain an answer which gives us a fresh example of the humble means by which in nature the greatest and most important results are obtained.
If we analyze Speech, we find that it is nothing more than a combination of separate sounds; that these sounds are noises which are produced by the expired air, with which tones of a musical kind, produced by the same means, can unite as Supplementary components.
The power of producing sounds by the current of expired air is by no means a peculiar property of man kind; rather it is possessed in a more or less pronounced form by all vertebrata performing respiration by means of lungs; the noises thus produced being used by them, partly to give expression to their feelings, partly to make communications to each other. What an immense differ ence between the sounds and the meaning attached to them, in the angry hiss of a snake and the song of a nightingale, in the warning whistle of a marmot and the various accents of the bay of a hound!
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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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- Publication date2020
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- ISBN 13 9781332328925
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