Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-23
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seIvoy Ills no pook' WhGb FarG In
r 9eosrs mere husks and remnants ~
lst,oilstnuction Of the life and shirt y. Il
originally Inhabited them. The ~ wnsAA
or new symbol or comhin.tj1 pesenes
Dols means a thought not yet ~; " syn.
put one winch he is straightwav ~, oxn
TO reproduce IL it be possible iiheitel
experience 10 do it. Forest-wanradns ha
.iiiluIeh since they do not thus resrll1ns
70 symbols, 90 not learn to talk all spont
they can think to limited deeres ''iilougi
At this point, we Approach 81 a.,
relationship which exists between th.,nas
and language. While there are t ss
ways of externalizing thoupbt saiioa
speak. aside from its expression $50 80 h
the use OF language, yet the though aga
and body, practically inseparahIe IL ~ you
would be effective. This has evar ealep
made an attribute of divinity a. yen
the Hindu says that Brahm. utfer,nanlta
syllable "Buhr.' created the univergss 's
In the case of the Evangelist. who =. q
that In the beginning was the Wasseli
etc. AS with pictures, so with Ian.vvfa
Inc meaning and that from which w. !
rive the meaning, are practically Ms, ~
fed iueht.
But symbols, i.e., the sounds IN ~ ,
suaSe or the letters in the alphahe, az
few. and easily mastered va
thoughts and feelings are mahv T ~.
variety enough for a life time. Syr sa
present little difficulty: long words ~
fore. unless there are too MANY a. v ,s
at once, present no especial obstae,A z
| the small child. Even diacriticai ~ 2
are readily assimilated and used - ad,e
lower grades. That childish abilitv -
| this line is not readily exhausted
denced by the amazing feats of cbnt
trained by the Pollard method of resgS.
Thought, however, moves in rapidy
cending spirals, which quickly d. y
young head. Human feeling is S III
even than language itself. Here is ~
extreme care is needed to mate lie
thought challenge gradually pragre,,;a as
This it is which shows us that Is ,rssa's
and literature are ''one and insenassoa1ess'
the same thing.
This response to the impact Of sym,.,.
on ones consciousness needs ernsa "ns
Mr.. Frank Hall. in discussing ths r,,Is
development of blind children a. ~. arM
pared with the slower and NOR aasD,,.
process of educating the deaf, pnts ~,
| the fact that the blind. being sim W. W.
| sessed of hearing, can be induced 4 w y
| act rapidly and repeatedly on inyaMa
| symbols Very fortunately for NJ !.
| seems. a spoken word passes forever az.
| of existence as soon as il has done ~
| duty of arouSing a sensation to be into.
preted-an effect similar to that VIII
|
dematerialized and utterly disar3near.i
at death. The printed symbols. on Il
contrary, remain with the child TO ma,
| My their office, and convince him I'll
they can, that they are individuals al
rank and Importance, instead of mers
messengers. THE chief work OF the pupiI
in. mental development" SAYS DIR. Han
seems to be responding to symbols s'I b.
| bringing into the mind those ideas for
which they stand and seeing their rela.
| ton There is similar thought en-.
bodied in DR.. Hiram Corson's declaration
that He would be the ideal teacher who
| could induce a maximum amount of edu
cation on the basis of minimum amount
of requirement
Happily for us. psychology and human
necessity supplement each other here.
| The number of our language symbols i
| very small. but the educative materal
| they furnish is boundless. and they ed@
| cate us better because they are few, CON.
| pelling us to react ad infinitum on ney
combinations of familiar symbols. but a,
ways for the sake of a supposedly neV
thought content. We can appreciate thl
| better if We consider the Chinese Ian
guage, with its multiplicity of letters; /
many, in fact, that an individual canna
catch up with his generation in time 1
contribute anything original before
dies This not only places that race onl
| linguistic treadmill. unable. without gres
difficulty, to mount higher, but it prova
an almost insurmountable barrier TO s.
| curing that kind of varied response 4
new combinations of few familiar SYN
| bols. which is so necessary to rapid De
velopment.
Emphasis has already been laid on IN
importance of the vanishing nature d
the symbols used, as of the spoken WON
This is the more significant when We con
slider that the only real language is spo
ken language. Printed or written wOrG
are only valley of dry bones mt
somebody breathes and prophesies upon
them, giving them flesh, blood and com.
pleXion. "A poem is not truly a poem,
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