ABSTRACT
Being phonetically different from other human cries, and normally accompanying such effort, they were associated with it in the mind, and were uttered by a man seeking such assistance from his fellow, together with a gesture mimicking the desired action. Perhaps the authors should mention first the theory of the origin of language (if such it can be called) which is contained in the second account of the Creation. Alas, man is no longer thought of as the first creature but the last, gradually achieving since the beginning of the world his mature, mental equipment. He is no longer the centre of the universe except in his own eyes. But it can hardly be doubted that this picture of language as originating in the names of things — and especially of the animals, with which the child and the primitive man are so closely in sympathy — constitutes a theory which men are prone to conceive and prone to accept.
