Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-09-06
sPRANKLIN AND MARSHALL.
faE sEmas ARR, COLLEGE AND ACaDEmY
ARE REorEnED.


The regular exercises OF the tneolo8icAi
seminary, college and academy opened this
moenins with IN address By Rev. +. A.
0nt D. D.. on ssThe mystery Of Language
He said. Language IL the mirror Of the
universe Nothing can elude expression
ID words. 1t expresses all that man can
know and think. II 10 the embodiment OF
mind In all its strength and powers
II 10 known ~ articulate human speech.
Gesture and aymbols have their siRnih.
e.nce II e .uIprising how few .rticaIs.s ate
ond multiplied into language
& The relstion which sound bears to
lnoguago N essentisl. Ideas are also
oWskened by other senses and then ex.
proceed IN or through language.
sse'osy n is there between sound and
ehspes. &c? Language precedes history.
Man could not remain In brute state after
coming Into existence. There is . broad
ohasU between man aud beast Thought
4 NIT something independent Of language.
Tue birth Of language 10 cotemporsneous
with the birth Of reason. What determined
The particuler sound for . particular
Idea This n the mystery Of language.
Many attempts have been male al solution
q the problsm, but they, for the
y most part stand only ss attempts. The
4 concept can be formed without name, and
no name Without . concept. The question
roturns 70 Ms unans wered, how are sound
eud sense connected Some hold language
- be mere Invention. And when we re-
nscs that the same sounds represent differ
0la But this theory IN long since ex-
plodod. Different Languages develop from
. acommcn language This presuppoeos q
pro existing language Where was the
lCea Of aEticuiate language obtained
Various attsmpts have boen made to In
vent universal language 1t may be ab.
ourd TO imagine that such language could
b brt ugbt Into universal use. 1t is impos.
siole to conceive OF an artificial language TO
b. universal. There must be more than a
morely conventional connection between
sound snd thought There must be an in-
tornal connection between sound and sense.
Roots stand ss the primary elements OF
sp0eCb, beyond which the science OF Ian.
guase cannot 20 back. BY examining
tnss0 roots We find the different relations
Of Language. Take any word and trace II
n.ck and you srrive at . general concept.
Tho most sncient theory Of the origin of
language In the imitation of sound. This
theory fuds little or no support since We
70 back TO roots. Bow could We name those
oojecta having NO sounds II language Ia the
words arc merely nicknsmes Analyzs
the names and you will come back TO roots.
Perhaps NO true root was ever formed to
Initiate sound.
Can we find the real beginnings of isn
guage In iDterJections? Impossiblei Cries
and roots are too vastly different.
Setting aside these theories can we find
helpin the sympathetic theory This theory
certainly contains much truth. How did q
particular sound become Identical with 9
particular action ?
The true solution An inner correspond
8 oncs exists between nature and mind.
The universe including nature and mind IL
vast interlsced system. There Is q sym
bolism OF thought rs we'll as feeling.
Roots are the immediate reflection oi
general ideaM
Tne creation Of language long precedea
history. Tho expression In every case Ia
Instructive and spontaneous Nature surely
has symbolism Of thought Ii must moi
Do Imagined that vowels and consonsnts q
z convoy any meaning OF themselves. A
root IN IN fact picture painted In sounds
instead OF colors.
The number Of students already on hand
appears to be exceptionally largo Quito q
number OF new faces need to become
familiar
Everything indicates q good aud pros
porous beginning
The attendance OF visitors at the openipq q
exercises was unusually large. Among
=. Z. 6ieip, w. K. Hotmeier, J. M. Tltzsi,
QQAX Ltchliter. b. +. Bausmsn, d.
". Aerhard, A. 3. Weber, president OF
Wichita university; A. ID. 9ring, returned
missionary TO japan; Theo. Appel, ID. d :,
u. h Mill, w. J. johnson, q. T. SCHNEIDER,
= L. Reed, ]. w. Memingor, DIR. q. f.
Nstscher, and there were many ladies.
Quite q number of tho studon,s are on
hand and more are coming In. The In.
coming freshman class promises to bs large
Regular class room exercises Will begin
promptly In all the departments to morrow.
Rev. T. @. Apple, ID. D., sets sail from
Queenstown to-day. He returns on the
City of New York