While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
Further evidence of the unconscious survival of gesture
language is afforded by the ready and involuntary response
made in signs to signs when a man with the speech and habits
of civilization is brought into close contact with Indians
or deaf-mutes. Without having ever before seen or made one
of their signs, he will soon not only catch the meaning of
theirs, but produce his own, which they will likewise
comprehend, the power seemingly remaining latent in him
until called forth by necessity.
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Sign Language
Among North American Indians Compared with
that Among Other Peoples and Deaf-Mutes,
1881
