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Significance of the Study of Language By JR Colby Language is a necessary basis for all the social life of way as distinguished from the life of the flock, the pack, the hard, the drove, the [?]; a necessary basis for society in all the function of social life, [?], education, politics and religion, [?], literature, and art as distinguisged mere
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3 has ever had a perfectly adequate language, for no race has ever developed a language with a separate word for every idea. On the other hand, if a race has never had a certain idea, it cannot have a word for that idea. The vocabulary and the constructions of a language - I am not [?] appealing of [?] men - cannot be [?] than the sum total of the
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experience of those who have used that language. But the more experiences they have lived through and the more [?] they have grasped and become [?] of their experiences, the richer will be the vocabulary and construction of a people as well as their literature. It follows naturally that in whatever domain experience has been riches, in that domain a people will develop the
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richest vocabulary. If it is a [warlike?] people, its vocabulary of war will be rich; if an agricultural peoeple, its agricultural [?] we be well developed; if a religious people, its [?] for the religious feelings and worship will be many; if a [manufacturing?] people, and [?] people, a people of large acheivement in science or philosophy or business, then the very neseccities of its life will
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6 have developed vocabularies corresponding to the [source?] of their experiences Now experience is not measured by the mere number of encounters with objects nor merely by feelings nor by situation [entered?] into. It is measured by our perception and understanding of the relations existing among the objects encountered, and by our perception and understanding of the relations which we [?] [?] [?] whether emotional, physical,
