THE

WORKS

OF

DUGALD STEWART.

.

IN SEVEN VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

CAMBRIDGE:

PUBLISHED BY HILLIARD AND BROWN.

1829.

B

CAMBRIDGE: E. W. METCALF AND COMPANY,

Printers to the University.

Of Language.

Sect. I.-Of Natural Language

3

II.-Of Artificial Language

16

Part I.-Of the Origin and History of Language 18

II.—The Same

36

III.-Of Language considered as an Instrument of Thought 50

IV.-Miscellaneous Observations on Language

57

V.—Miscellaneons Observations on Language, continued - 66

VI.—Miscellaneous Observations on Language, continued.

-Conjectures concerning the Origin of the Sanscrit 72

APPENDIX I.

97

II.

· 105

Of the Principle or Law of Sympathetic Imitation.

Sect. I.–Of our Propensity to this Species of Imitation

108

II.-Of the Power of Imitation

123

III.-Of certain Phenomena which seem to be resolvable,

in part, into the foregoing Principles

137

IV.-Of the Advantages resulting from this Constitution of

Human Nature

151

APPENDIX

162

PART THIRD.

CHAPTER I.

Of the Varieties of Intellectual Character.

Sect. I.-General Observations

II.-The Metaphysician

175

181