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Show crossing of a line; supercilious, the raising o the epe-brow. We say the hearf to expres emotion, the head to denote thought; an thought and emotion are, in their turn, word borrowed from sensible things, and no appropriated to spiritual nature. Most o the process by which this transformatio is made, is hidden from us in the remot time whe language wa framed bu th same tendency may be daily observed i children. Children and savages use onl nouns or names of things, which they continually convert into vetbs, and apply t analogous menta acts 2. But this origin of all words that conve a spiritual import,-so conspicuous a fac in the history of language,-is our leas debt to nature. Itis not words only that ar emblematic is thing i whic ar em blematic. Every natural fact is a symbo of some spiritual fact. Every appearanc in nature corresponds to some state of th mind, and that state of the mind can onl b describe b presenting that natura appearance as its picture. An enraged ma is a lion, a cunning man is a fox, a fir manis a rock, a learned man is a torch. lamb is innocence; a snake is subtle spite 3 University of Utah. Al rights reserved |
