• Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson: Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.42, Harvard University Press