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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, chapter 36 (search)
rest is brought forward by one of the most eminent of American philologists, Horatio Hale. It forms the substance of an address given at Buffalo, New York, in his cacounting for them has hitherto seemed almost insuperable. Yet all this while, Mr. Hale thinks, the real solution was one of the simplest things in the world, and laygave the key to the whole mystery. The solution is to be found, according to Mr. Hale, in what he calls the language-making instinct of very young children. Thersmall circulation, the Monthly Journal of Psychological Medicine, he gave what Mr. Hale calls a clear and scientific account of something more of the same kind. It ws way with the greatest rapidity and fluency. Further inquiries have shown, Mr. Hale says, that this phenomenon is not unusual, and the theory he founds upon it isld account for all the entirely distinct stocks upon the face of the earth. Mr. Hale points out, in confirmation of this theory, that much the larger part of these