American Fonostenografy

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Excerpt from American Fonostenografy: A Modern System of Rapid and Readable Shortand Many of the profoundest masters of philology deem it a fundamental principle of the science of language that without speech there could have been no thought, without thought no reason, without reason no conscious being, no barrier between animal existence and human life. That conceptual ideas cannot exist in a naked state, unclothed with language, is a postulate which possesses for one school of philologists the authority of an axiomatic truth, while an equally eminent array of linguistic learning stands in stalwart opposition to such a principle and assails every assumption that language and thought are one and 2 indivisible. The question, therefore, is and, in the nature of the problems involved, must perhaps always be sub judice. But altho this scientific dogma of the causal connection of speech with thought cannot claim for itself universal acceptance, it 2 seems not at all unreasonable to assume that the earliest awakening of mans rational faculties into conscious activity was a, attended and attested by that utterance of articulate sounds -i which, in the narrower sense of the term, we call language. All our thoughts and emotions are expressed by the human voice in an infinite series of varied utterances. Ideas are they spirit of language, articulate sounds its substance, and the vocal organs its instruments. In speech, language addresses itself to the ear by means of its phonetic embodiment in sound. To image forth to the eye the substance of language, to fix and perpetuate the phonetic embodiment of speech, became early in human development absolutely essential to the evolution of mankind, and when this necessity realized itself, writing was invented. About the Publisher 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.