Note 30 — Chapter I · THE ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE.
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For assertions of the conventional character of language, see Arist. περὶ Ἑρμηνείας, ii. 1. Plato, Crat. ad in. Harris, Hermes, iii. 1. Locke, iii. 1-8. Fénelon, Lettre sur les occupations de l’Acad. § 3. (These are quoted at length by Charma, p. 208.) Smith, Theory of the Moral Sentiments, ii. 364. Grimm, 39, 40. Lersch, passim.