Note 63 — Chapter II · THE PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE IDEA OF SPEECH.
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“One might be tempted to call Language a kind of Picture of the Universe, where the words are as the figures and images of all particulars.”—Harris’s Hermes, p. 330. This is something like Plato’s curious notion that words are a μίμησις of external things.—Heyse, System, s. 24. ἐοικέναι γὰρ τὰ ὀνόματα ... εἰκόσι τῶν ὁρατῶν.—Heraclitus, ap. Ammonium ad Arist. de Interp. p. 24. Democritus called them ἀγάλματα φωνήεντα.