2 TOHU-VA-VOHU majesty of God, you also find at the same time His condescension. Soin the Law, then in the Prophets, and again in the Hagiographa. I imagine there is nowhere in Nature either a gap or a sudden transition, but always intermediate and connecting links. Thus between lifelessness and life (stones and plants), between plants and animals, and again between instinct and reason (animals and men), in that highest class of instinct which almost simulates reason. Generally, language is regarded as the highest attribute of man; I regard it as the lowest. It must be either the product of a kind of higher instinct— which is unreasoning reason—or else of inspiration (strange that these two, the highest and the lowest in the scale, should meet!), so deeply significant is it. For I cannot believe that nations had reasoned it all out, and then put it down in their languages—all this deep philosophy of their grammars, of the derivation of their words, and even of their idioms. Take such a simple instance of the latter as this: In England, where we are least reasoning, we say: ‘It is cold,’ meaning, the air is cold, which is nonsense—since cold and heat are. not real attributes, but mark our subjective feelings. In French we advance to: ‘Il