Asia, Act II, sc. iv, l. 72
Prometheus Unbound (1818–1819; publ. 1820)
“He gave them speech, and they became souls”
Modes of Thought (1938).
1930s
Context: The mentality of mankind and the language of mankind created each other. If we like to assume the rise of language as a given fact, then it is not going too far to say that the souls of men are the gift from language to mankind. The account of the sixth day should be written: He gave them speech, and they became souls.
“Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth,
When thought is speech, and speech is truth.”
Canto II, introduction.
Marmion (1808)
Katie Nicholl, Dominic Turnbull, "Appalling waxworks", Mail on Sunday, 13 November 2005, p. 1.
Entry in private journal about the handover of British sovereignty in Hong Kong in 1997 referring to President Jiang Zemin of China. The contents were disclosed in the Mail on Sunday in November 2005.
2000s
“Speech is a mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he.”
Maxim 1073
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
Speech at Hall of Science c.1880 quoted in An Autobiography of Annie Besant; reported in Edmund Fuller, Thesaurus of Quotations (1941), p. 398; reported as unverified in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989).
Attributed
“In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought.”
In civitate libera linguam mentemque liberas esse debere (jactabat).
Variant translation: In a free state, both the tongue and the mind ought to be free.
From Suetonius, The Twelves Caesars, ch. 28
Discovery of Freedom: Man's Struggle Against Authority (1943)
