Dialogue

 1 Craty| maintained. My opinion is, that primitive men were like some modern
 2 Craty|      work of whole nations in a primitive or semi-barbarous age. How,
 3 Craty|      times, until the nature of primitive antiquity had been thoroughly
 4 Craty|         complete. The savage or primitive man, in whom the natural
 5 Craty| confusing them. For the mind of primitive man had a narrow range of
 6 Craty|         principles, there is no primitive form or forms of language
 7 Craty|       or a word when applied to primitive language, it is probable
 8 Craty|        besides the figment of a primitive or original language which
 9 Craty|         and an instinct to him. Primitive men learnt to speak from
10 Craty|    enough away from the mind of primitive man. We may speak of a latent
11 Craty|    verse. The old onomatopea of primitive language was refined into
12 Craty|        of ignorance of first or primitive names involves an ignorance
13 Craty|          SOCRATES: And further, primitive nouns may be compared to
14 Craty|       allow that some nouns are primitive, and some derived?~CRATYLUS:
15 Craty|          Then if you admit that primitive or first nouns are representations
16 Craty|        things from names if the primitive names were not yet given?