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The Speech of Monkeys
·
R. L. Garner
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CHAPTER
XVI.
The
Faculty
of
Thought--Emotion
and
Thought--Instinct
and
Reason--Monkeys
Reason--Some
Examples.
The
study
of
biology
has
revealed
many
facts
which
conspire
to
show
that
the
incipient
forms
of
animal
and
vegetable
life
are
the
same
in
those
two
great
kingdoms;
and
parallel
with
this
fact,
I
think
it
can
be
shown
that
the
faculty
of
expression
goes
hand
in
hand
with
life.
And
why
should
not
this
be
the
case?
From
the
standpoint
of
religion,
I
cannot
see
why
the
bounty
of
God
should
not
be
equal
to
such
a
gift,
nor
can
I
conceive
of
a
more
sublime
act
of
universal
justice
than
that
all
things
endowed
with
thought,
however
feeble,
should
be
endowed
with
the
power
of
expressing
it.
From
the
standpoint
of
evolution,
I
cannot
understand
by
what
rule
Nature
would
have
worked
to
develop
the
emotions,
sensations,
and
faculties
alike
in
all
these
various
forms,
and
make
this
one
exception
in
the
case
of
speech.
It
does
not
seem
in
keeping
with
her
laws.
From
the
standpoint
of
chance,
I
cannot
see
why
such
an
accident
might
not
have
occurred
at
some
other
point
in
the
scale
of
life,
or
why
such
anomalies
are
not
more
frequent.
Man
appears
to
be
the
only
one.
From
any
point
of
view
we
take,
it
does
not
seem
consistent
with
other
facts.
All
other
primates
think
and
feel,
and
live
and
die
under
like
conditions
and
on
like
terms
with
man;
then
why
should
he
alone
possess
the
gift
of
speech?
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