Note 22 — Chapter I · PURPOSE AND METHOD
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Ibid., pp. 15 f., “répétition, approximative, abrégée surtout; mais néanmoins elle est une répétition.” But at once he quotes some striking facts, in order to prove his thesis (that song preceded speech), and goes back for a child analogy to the book of B. Perez, L’Art et la Poésie chez l’Enfant, a book which the present writer has been unable to consult.