ISBN: 9780548833568

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: whenever an opaque body intervened, and whenever the face was turned in another direction, such language would instantly become impossible. It is incapable of represent, ing the distinctness and successiveness of thought; it is limited on every side by physical conditions; it requires an attention too Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: whenever an opaque body intervened, and whenever the face was turned in another direction, such language would instantly become impossible. It is incapable of represent, ing the distinctness and successiveness of thought; it is limited on every side by physical conditions; it requires an attention too exclusive and intense; it would reach a shorter distance,1 and appeal to a less spiritual sense. For though both Sight and Hearing are ideal senses, as distinguished from the inferior ones of touch, taste, and smell, Hearing is more ideal in its nature, and reaches more nearly to the soul than Sight. It is the clearest, liveliest, and most instantaneously affected of the senses. That which is seen is material,2 and remains in space, but that which is heard (although in reality as permanent and as corporeal) yet to our blunt senses has a purely ideal existence, and vanishes immediately in time. Hence sound is especially adapted to be the bearer, and the ear to be the receiver of thought, which is an activity requiring time for its successive developments, and is therefore well expressed by a succession of audible sounds. Juxtaposition in space appealing to the eye could only remotely and analogously recall this succession in time. Moreover, hearing requires but the air, the most universal of all mediums, the most immediate condition of life; whereas the eye requires light as well, and is far more dependent on external accidents. The fact that even a sleeper is instantly awoke to consciousness bythe tremor of his auditory nerve under the influence of the voice, is a proof of the impressive and immediate adaptability of sound to the exigencies of the intellectual life. So that hearing is the very innermost of the senses, and stands in the strictest and closest connection with Books, , Chapters-on-Language~~Frederic-William-Farrar, 999999999, Chapters on Language, Frederic William Farrar, 0548833567, Kessinger Publishing Company, , , , , Kessinger Publishing Company<

ISBN: 9780548833568

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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: KESSINGER PUB CO, 360 Seiten, L=229mm, B=152mm, H=20mm, Gew.=526gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert