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The Speech of Monkeys
·
R. L. Garner
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That
evolution
is
the
mode
by
which
the
world
was
peopled,
there
is
little
doubt,
but
there
are
many
details
yet
unsettled
as
to
the
manner
in
which
this
was
effected.
I
cannot
regard
the
matter
as
proven
beyond
appeal
that
man
has
come
from
any
antecedent
type
that
was
not
man,
nor
yet
do
I
deny
that
such
may
be
the
case;
but
I
do
deny
that
the
broad
chasm
which
separates
man
from
other
primates
cannot
be
crossed
on
the
bridge
of
speech;
and
while
this
does
not
prove
their
identity
or
common
origin,
it
does
show
that
Nature
did
not
intend
that
either
one
should
monopolise
any
gift
which
she
had
to
bestow.
It
is
as
reasonable
to
believe
that
man
has
always
occupied
a
sphere
of
life
apart
from
that
of
apes,
as
to
believe
that
apes
have
occupied
a
sphere
of
life
apart
from
birds,
except
that
the
distance
from
centre
to
centre
is
greater
between
birds
and
apes
than
that
distance
between
apes
and
man.
So
far
as
any
fossil
proofs
contribute
to
our
knowledge,
we
find
no
point
at
which
the
line
is
crossed
in
either
case;
and
the
earliest
traces
of
man's
physiological
history
find
him
distinctly
man,
and
this
history
reaches
back
on
meagre
evidence
many,
many
centuries
before
historic
time.
Among
these
earlier
remains
of
man,
we
find
no
fossils
of
the
Simian
type
to
show
that
he
existed
at
that
time;
but
at
a
somewhat
later
period
we
find
some
remnants
of
the
Simian
type
in
deposits
of
Southern
Europe;
but
they
are
of
the
smaller
tribes,
and
have
been
assigned
to
the
Macacus.
We
cannot
trace
the
history
of
this
genus
from
that
to
the
present
time
to
ascertain
whether
they
were
the
progenitors
of
apes
or
not;
but
between
this
type
and
that
of
apes
the
hiatus
is
as
broad
as
that
which
intervenes
between
the
ape
and
man.
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