The Older the Greater Cognitive Power : Other Traces of Antediluvian Civilisation in Human Languages Prehistoric Homo sapiens did not only have a bigger brain than modern Homo sapiens, or the technical ability and knowledge to build megalithic monuments encoding advanced mathematical, architectural, and astronomical knowledge. Human Languages followed a declining trend through the ages from the cognitive perspective. The oldest languages like Sanskrit were the most elaborate, precise, and powerful. Ancient languages like Greek, Latin, or Hebrew, inherited some of this talent. The somehow confused code of the modern languages, probably restricting modern humans cognitive ability, may need to be engineered to bring back mankind to its senses. Not evolution but remission. The classical Sanskrit is perhaps the most remarkably finished and capable instrument of thought yet fashioned, at any rate by either the Aryan or the Semitic mind, lucid with the utmost possible clarity, precise to the farthest limit of precision, always compact and at its best sparing in its formation of phrase, but yet with all this never poor or bare: there is no sacrifice of depth to lucidity, but rather a pregnant opulence of meaning, a capacity of high richness and beauty, a natural grandeur of sound and diction inherited from the ancient days. (Aurobindo. The Renaissance in India with A Defence of Indian Culture, p. 357 - sriaurobindoashram.org/ashram/sriauro/downloadpdf.php?id=35)
Posted on: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 07:35:49 +0000
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