Book 1, Ch. 8, 13
Augustine contemplates how he learned to communicate when growing from infant to boy. He got by with grunts and gestures, but eventually learned the verbal signs needed to engage in the “stormy fellowship of human life.”
When they called some thing by name and pointed it out while they spoke, […]

I’m going through my very first reading of The Confessions of St. Augustine, and as the title suggests, I’ll be adding my reflections as I go through. (I thought about calling it “Confessions Considerations” but I don’t think the alliteration was as catchy as the rhyme. Either way it was a mouthful. Anyway…)
The Confessions seems […]