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The say of the land. Is language produced by the mind? Romantic theory has it otherwise: words emerge from the cosmos, expressing its soul

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Words have soul: on the Romantic theory of language origin - Mark Vernon | Aeon Essays
Published
Sep 25 2018
Word count
3371 words

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    Mark Vernon is a psychotherapist and writer, with a PhD in ancient Greek philosophy and other degrees in theology and in physics. His new book using the ideas of Owen Barfield, A Secret History of Christianity: Jesus, the Last Inkling, and the Evolution of Consciousness, is published in spring 2019.