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Thought without Words

Nature volume 36, pages 172–173 (1887)Cite this article

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AFTER reading the correspondence published in NATURE (vol. xxxvi. pp. 28, 52, and 100) on this subject, it has occurred to me that the difficulties anthropologists find in Prof. Max Müller's theory are connected chiefly with his peculiar definitions.

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EBBELS, A. Thought without Words. Nature 36, 172–173 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/036172b0

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