Abstract

No form of society or organized existence can take shape without means of communication. Our possibilities of communication are of necessity based on the five senses through which we perceive the external world. But these do not represent an absolute limit. The Hertzian waves by means of which certain insects communicate directly serve today as a vehicle for human communications, but for us they have to be transcribed into auditory or visual terms. Psychic communications can be developed, but remain for us a potentiality. In the lowest forms of life, taste, smell and touch play an important part. In the higher animal orders and in man, sight and hearing are developed as the essential means of communication, probably because of their greater range.

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