Note 96 — Chapter XXXI · KRATYLUS.
Reading edition
Plato, Kratyl. pp. 434 E, 435 A-B.
This unsystematic, spontaneous, origin and growth of language is set forth by Lucretius, who declares himself opposed to the theory of an originating Name-giver (v. pp. 1021-1060). Jacob Grimm and M. Renan espouse a theory, in the main, similar.