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The Speech of Monkeys
·
R. L. Garner
114
The
sounds
which
express
crying,
sighing,
or
laughter,
may
indeed
be
a
faint
suggestion
of
speech,
since
we
infer
from
them
the
state
of
the
mind
attending
the
emotions
which
produce
them,
yet
they
are
not
truly
speech.
To
be
regarded
as
speech,
the
expression
must
be
preceded
by
consciousness,
and
the
desire
to
make
known
to
another
the
sensation
by
which
the
expression
is
actuated.
As
the
impulse
can
only
come
from
within,
it
appears
that
emotion
is
one
source
from
which
thought
is
evolved,
and
speech
is
the
natural
issue
of
thought.
Desire
gives
rise
to
a
class
of
thoughts
having
reference
to
the
sensations
which
produce
them,
and
such
thoughts
find
expression
in
such
sounds
as
may
suggest
supplying
the
want.
As
the
wants
of
man
have
increased
with
his
changing
modes
of
life
and
thought,
his
speech
has
drawn
upon
the
resources
of
sound
to
meet
those
increased
demands
for
expression.
It
appears
only
reasonable
to
me
that
thought
must
precede
in
point
of
time
and
order
any
expression
of
thought,
for
thought
is
the
motive
of
expression,
and
the
expression
of
thought
in
oral
sounds
is
speech.
[Sidenote:
NATURE
OF
SPEECH]
Speech
is
not
an
invention,
and
therefore
is
not
symbolic
in
its
radical
nature.
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