Note 20 — Chapter I · THE ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE.
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“I am by no means clear that the dog may not have an analogon of words.”—Coleridge. Similarly Plato attributes a διάλεκτος to animals, adducing some very interesting proofs. See Clemens Alexandr. Strom. i. 21, § 413. See, too, Thomson’s Passions of Animals. “They also know, and reason not contemptibly.”—Milton.