speech-tones

Updated: January 24, 2026

But just as in life and in nature all opposites are only relatively opposed, and within every circle, every sphere, both opposites are found to be contained, so also in language one perceives within the sphere of speech-tones the two opposites of subject and object.

Friedrich Fröbel - Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel translated and annotated by Emilie Michaelis ... and H. Keatley Moore.