This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: … servant than language. It must be trained as we train eye and hand; not mechanised but quickened and developed; its precision that not of dead machinery but of living Sense…. 65… Now a dispute once took place between Mind and Speech as to which was the better of the two. Both Mind and Speech said, ‘I am excellent!’ Mind said, ‘Surely I am better than thou, for thou dost not speak anything that is not understood by me; and since thou art only an imitator of what is done by me and a follower in my wake, I am surely better than thouSpeech said, 'Surely I am better than thou, for what thou knowest I make known, I communicate’. They went to appeal to Pragapati for his decision. He decided in favour of Mind, saying (to Speech) ‘Mind is indeed better than thou for thou art an imitator of its deeds and a follower in its wake; and inferior surely is he who imitates his better’s deeds and follows in his wake’. (Satapatha Brahmana, Vol. XIL, Sacred Books of the East, p. 130.) But as Pragapati’s words died away there appeared a third pleader who said, O Pragapati, I think that I also have somewhat to say in this matter. For my name is Sense and I am before all else the value of all Mind and all Speech.
What thou sayest is truth, answered Pragapati. And Mind and Speech both welcomed him and said, Verily, Sense, to be without thee is the greatest misfortune which can befall us and we beseech thee therefore never to leave us .
I will consent, said Sense, but only if thou, Mind, and thou, Speech, will promise never again to dispute as to which is the more excellent, as though either were of value without me. For thou, Mind, art useless even to thyself without expression in some Sense; and…
