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 better in music than in words—certain others in form—and still others in color. Again there are feelings that can not be expressed at all in words, for the mind harbors more than it knows and it has no clear symbols ready for use in certain of its conscious states.

This is not to drag in metaphysics; nor is it a theory made to fit certain isolated facts; but it is, rather, a deduction from physical facts. Clinical experience has shown that damage done to the speech-area may totally destroy the powers of thought while it leaves the emotional faculties seemingly undisturbed. It is clear, therefore, that words in their combinations are the instruments of thought; and that they are, in a limited sense, the masters or moulders of thought, if not actually the thought itself. Thus the ethical relations between language and thought may be much more intimate than is commonly suspected even by the most carefully spoken person of extreme moral sensibility.

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