This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... is narrow. We have frequently insisted on the fact that speech is a form of action, or relief of emotional tension. The earliest method of communicating ideas was probably by gestures, including the emission of cries and vocal sounds. Gradually the vocal sounds became systematised into a sort of language; but ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... is narrow. We have frequently insisted on the fact that speech is a form of action, or relief of emotional tension. The earliest method of communicating ideas was probably by gestures, including the emission of cries and vocal sounds. Gradually the vocal sounds became systematised into a sort of language; but so long as the language is imperfect, it continues to be eked out by gestures. Persons with a poor command of language still endeavour to increase the comprehensibility of their remarks by gesticulation; and gesticulation is greatly resorted to between persons of different countries, who imperfectly understand each other's language. But generally an inverse ratio exists between gesticulation and efficient speech. If the emotion or interest flows out fully and adequately in language, it is not simultaneously expressed by bodily gesticulation. If the emotion is high however, it is likely to escape along both channels together; it cannot then be sufficiently carried off by speech alone. As a general rule the deep and crude instincts, which men share in common with other animals, are not expressed by speech, but by a grosser form of physical activity. Speech is a refined form of activity, adopted to the expression of refined or intellectual interests rather than blunt passion. The efficacy of speech in relieving emotion can be seen conspicuously by watching a heated conversation between two foreigners in a language which we are unable to understand. As emotion rises, the tendency to speak becomes stronger, till at last expression may become so urgent that each breaks in upon the other, unable even for a few moments to remain silent. At the same time the increasing body of emotion is indicated by the greater energy and louder voices, with which...
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