Excerpt from A Lecture on the Origin and Development of the First Constituents of CivilisationWe cannot stop to inquire into the cause of this error so extensively dif fused, but the student will be aided in finding it, if he will re¿ect on another very common mistake, akin to the mentioned one. It consists in allowing our selves to be deceived by a distinct word for an indistinct idea, as if the latter were as concise and definite in our minds, as the sound of the first is distinct and definite in our ears. Languages in which it is grammatically easy to ah stract, such as the Greek and German, are peculiarly apt to mislead the philo sopher into this very serious error.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.