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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Foreword: The Love of Language -- Postscript -- Part I: From Myth to Utopia -- 1 From Austral to Astral Voyages: Foundational Myths -- Unknown Worlds -- The Role of Myth: From Lingua Adamica to Babel -- 2 The Dreamer Dreaming: Profiles in Logophilia -- 3 The Dream of the Dreamer's Rib: Female Bodies, Male Science -- Part II: In the Course of Time (The Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century) -- 4 The Unfinished Quest: The Search for an Ideal Language in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- 5 Science against Fiction: The March toward Positive Fact -- 6 Utopia in Action: The Ascent of International Auxiliary Languages -- 7 Myth at the Heart of Science: Modern Linguistic Theories as Reflected in Science Fiction -- Part III: Two Poles of Linguistic Fantasy -- 8 The Emperor's New Clothes: The Case of Nikolai Marr -- 9 The Queen of the Night: Language and the Unconscious-Spiritualist and Religious Glossolalia -- 1. On Earth as It Is in Heaven -- 2. Sancta Simplicitas -- 3. I Is Another -- 4. The Song of Innocence -- Part IV: The Defense and Illustration of Natural Languages -- 10 Sleeping Beauty at Rest: Artificial Languages, Prisons of the Mind -- 11 Opposing Forces -- Appendix 1: Synoptic Table -- Appendix 2: Selected Texts -- The Language of Philosophy -- Forerunners of Scientific Thought about the Origins of Language -- Fantastical Reconstructions of the Primitive Tongue -- Imaginary Languages in Fiction -- Texts by Nikolai Marr -- Texts on Glossolalia -- Notes -- Foreword -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Bibliography -- 1 Primary Sources -- 2 Critical and Analytic Works and Commentaries -- Internet Resources.