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The Say of the Land: Is Language Produced by the Mind?

21 mins | Sep 30, 2018
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Mark Vernon, writing in Aeon magazine, explores the Romantic theory that language is produced not by the mind, but rather emerges from the cosmos, expressing its soul.

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