Show DEATH DEAm AND LA IA MORT Language is thought ready for shipment ship ment Language is 35 either words c or r notes or or hn color Language i ithe is the only tangible f form rm of tim the human buma soul Beasts C cannot t tell ll their young young youn about death The Tho language of a people is that pea peo Ble's Bles pies pie's tool soul it i is that which is loft left o ohe of the he dead deM Lan Language aJ is the only tanin tan giblo in bio form of tho the immortal past int into the molds moMs of which however acting o or interacting an inevitable future mus must be poured With Inn language men inca os cs- es- es cape cap Animals have died 1 Perhaps no two of at f th the Eur European peo pica plc h have more signally escaped than thanEn En Englishmen and Frenchmen Yet n no two of the European peoples have hav I evolved such different methods of cs es capo cape The h he- he heEn En English l h o l and the soul sout are are barel barely comparable The Thc difference dif dif dif- ference rence seems seems' to bo ho tho the difference bo boo bo- bo tween death and la Ja mart mort French exhibits from the tho start n a c certain er- er rtin r- r tam tin tain transparency which is not found in the tho En English language This transparency trans is is' cba characteristic of or Trench French a as 88 much BO so as the sound of tho the r French elch D From Prom this tran there thoro results in In French Frencha s condition which is not eM easy to interpret for English consciousness it ma may bo Eo called fI Tho The pebble you in French is if is too clearly outlined t to flU suggest a n fro frog The French language do does s not su suggest sug gest Jest it pi pictures t res or remains a n blank blan What it cannot picture it docs does not express ex cx- pre press what it cannot say it does daM not imply And from this there ther inevitably results another condition which bich is yet I further removed cd from English rn c conscio con con- n. n I scio and that i is tho of French thought French coU consciousness conscious conscious- ness deals with nth savable thiD things things things-things thin things savable ablo in in- French but but which in a consciousness eonS con on like iko- that of En English lish ma may stir up sue such a whirlwind of lr suggestion as to render the thought not only un un- un payable but unthinkable an as well won In English h consciousness on a judicious selection selection l lc-c. lc tion of thou thought ht mu must t be made marlo before proceeding to expression There remains romaine one one- qu question tion to ask What form term of death or impropriety or orr r a ty has hu Trench Fren h consciousness consciousness' De pro pro- this Gallic Game cOD consciousness which expresses even idealism m realistically realis Richard Richard in the tho Tan Jan I uary number of thi North American f Re Review ew |