The importance of a verbal type of gesture language (with separate, invariable signs for each element of meaning) lies in the fact that with this power of separate symbolism comes the power of making new syntheses, and that this power may have been almost wholly lacking before the necessary analytical and symbolic powers were evolved. Man's inventive' power would then have been on the same plane as that of the animal world.
It is evident that words, depending on mouth gesture, associated with hand gesture of a standardized (analytic) type, could only at first express concrete ideas; namely, such objects, actions, qualities, etc, as could be symbolized by bodily attitude or movement—posture or gesture.
'The faculty of symbolizing abstract ideas depended entirely on the use of man's poetic' faculty, especially the faculty of seeing analogues between abstract and concrete, as, on our hypothesis, he had seen the analogy between a curiously shaped stone and a bird or animal.
Thus, to the Red Indian, joy was sunshine (in) heart; sunshine and heart are both easy ideas to symbolize in signs. So joy can also be symbolized. What really distinguished man from the higher apes was that he had become a symbolizing animal, and that symbolism was the mother of invention he modelled or drew or impressed German Pastors Refuse Hunting and Dancing To Take Hitler Oath Primitive man was not limited to the symbolizing of objects; he could also symbolize actions, such as hunting, dancing and other bodily movements or postures, namely, by draw ing crude representations of the actions in question.
The same method of representing actions was later developed by the Red Indians of North America, so that it became a complete script. The Chinese, Sumerians and Egyptians developed a similar technique. which ultimately became formalized as the Chinese ideograph, cuneiform and hieroglyph, respectively.
Thi it may be that primitive man acquired the art of anal; i pressions, and of the symbolization of separate elements of his impression, from his first observations of natural objects which he recognized as being like other objects!
The moment he began to study natural objects with the view of drawing or modelling them, he had to concentrate his mind on them and, in fact, to isolate them from their environment, for the act of drawing or modelling was in itself a symbolize ing of the model, or of the action or quality which he portrayed.
Berlin, July 27.
The date by which all German Protestant pastors must have sworn allegiance to Herr Hitler has been set back two months, the zero hour now being September 30.
Several pastors still refuse to take the oath. Observers here point out that for the past weeks some moderation is being shown the Catholic and confessional churches on part of the Nazi authorities, while the press has been most reserved.—Havas, It seems likely enough that this process of symbolizing by drawing or modelling should have been used very early, in magical practice; indeed, the power of produc.ag stones, clay shapes or drawings, which looked like or suggested living forms, must have appeared highly magical to' the tribal contemporaries of the
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