Note 18 — Chapter I · THE ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE.
Reading edition
There are some noble remarks to this effect in Schlegel’s Philosophische Vorlesungen. Wien. 1830. Hebrew scholars will readily remember cases of the importance attached by the sacred writers to the mere sound of words; a remarkable instance may be seen in Jer. i. 11, 12, and a curious play on sounds occurs in the second verse of Genesis.