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The Speech of Monkeys
·
R. L. Garner
101
I
do
not
pretend
to
know
whether
man
was
evolved
from
ape,
or
ape
from
man;
whether
they
are
congenetic
products
of
a
common
authorship,
or
the
masterpieces
of
two
rival
authors;
but
I
cannot
see
in
what
respect
man's
identity
would
be
affected,
whatever
may
be
the
case.
If
it
be
shown
that
man
descended
from
the
ape,
it
does
not
change
the
facts
which
have
existed
from
the
beginning,
nor
does
it
change
the
destiny
to
which
he
is
assigned.
If
it
can
be
shown
that
apes
descended
from
man,
it
does
not
leave
upon
man
the
censure
for
this
degeneracy.
If
man
has
risen
from
the
low
plane
of
brutehood
which
the
ape
now
occupies,
has
scaled
the
barriers
which
now
separate
him
from
apes,
and
has
climbed
to
the
divine
heights
of
mental
and
moral
manhood,
the
ape
deserves
no
praise
for
this.
On
the
other
hand,
if
apes
have
fallen
from
the
state
of
man,
have
wandered
so
far
from
the
gates
of
light,
and
are
now
wandering
in
the
twilight
of
intellect
and
degradation,
it
is
no
reproach
to
man;
and
while
I
shall
not
sit
in
judgment
in
the
cause,
nor
testify
on
either
side,
I
am
willing
to
accept
whatever
verdict
may
be
founded
on
the
real
facts,
and
I
shall
not
appeal
therefrom.
But
I
shall
not
allow
my
prejudice
to
conceal
the
truth,
whenever
it
is
shown
to
me.
It
is
always
acceptable
to
my
mind,
and,
stripped
of
all
sophistry
and
oblique
conditions,
it
would
appear
the
same
to
every
mind.
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