XXVIII. Apostrophe.-Hyphen.-Quotation-points, XXIX. Exercise on the Apostrophe, the Hyphen, and Quotation-points, 147 XXX. Other Marks used in Writing and Printing, ADVANCED COURSE OF COMPOSITION AND RHETORIC. PART I. HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. LESSON I. MEDIA OF COMMUNICATION. § 1. MAN is distinguished from the brute creation by the possession of reason. Brutes are governed by instinct; man, by his reasoning faculties. The senses of both are the same, and on these senses material objects produce similar impressions. But from these impressions brutes can not reason any further than their natural instincts enable them, and their necessities require. Man, on the other hand, being possessed of intellectual faculties, is capable of drawing inferences; and thus from the impressions made on his senses by a single external object, receives many different ideas, which, producing others in their turn, may be multiplied to infinity. § 2. Men, being endowed with social dispositions, naturally desire to interchange the ideas received in the manner § 1. How is man distinguished from the brute creation? By what are brutes governed? By what, man? How do the senses of men and brutes, and the impressions produced upon them, differ? How, then, do men receive more ideas from these impressions than brutes? |