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The Speech of Monkeys
·
R. L. Garner
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That
somewhere
in
the
lapse
of
time
all
genera
began,
admits
of
no
debate;
and
by
inversion
it
is
plain
that
all
generic
outlines
must
focus
at
the
point
from
which
they
first
diverged,
and
such
an
operation
does
not
indicate
that
man
and
Simian
have
ever
been
more
closely
allied
than
they
are
at
the
present
time;
but
the
evidence
is
clear
that
man
has
been
evolved
from
a
lower
plane
than
he
now
occupies.
The
inference
may
be
safely
applied
to
apes,
as
progress
is
the
universal
law
of
life.
The
question
has
been
asked,
"Who
is
the
progenitor
of
man?"
The
solution
of
this
problem
has
engaged
the
most
profound
minds
of
modern
time.
If
it
be
said
in
reply
that
apes
were
the
progenitors
of
man,
the
question
then
arises,
"Who
was
the
progenitor
of
the
ape?"
If
it
be
said
that
man
and
ape
had
a
common
progenitor,
a
like
question
arises,
and
it
becomes
necessary
to
connect
all
types
allied
to
each
other
as
these
two
types
are
physically
allied.
If
man
is
the
climax
of
a
great
scheme
in
Nature
by
which
one
type
is
gradually
transformed
into
another,
we
must
descend
the
scale
of
life
by
crossing
the
chasm
which
lies
between
mankind
and
apes,
another
lying
between
the
apes
and
monkeys,
another
between
the
monkeys
and
baboons,
another
between
the
baboons
and
lemurs,
and
yet
another
between
the
lemurs
and
the
lemuroids,
and
thus
from
form
to
form
like
islands
in
the
great
sea
of
life.
From
man
to
infinity
the
question
constantly
recurs,
and
over
each
hiatus
must
be
built
a
separate
bridge.
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