Note 40 — Chapter I · THE ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE.
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It seems to me, however, that Grimm’s special arguments on this subject are weak (p. 26); he is clearly right in pointing out the futility of such conjectures as those of Lessing, that language was made known to man by intercourse with intermediate spirits. (Lessing, Sämmtl. Schriften, Bd. 10.)