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The Speech of Monkeys
·
R. L. Garner
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True,
that
much
that
is
symbolic
has
been
added
to
it,
and
its
bounds
have
been
widened
as
men
have
risen
in
the
scale
of
civil
life,
until
our
higher
types
of
modern
speech
have
departed
so
far
from
the
natural
modes
of
speech
and
first
forms
of
expression,
that
we
can
rarely
trace
a
single
word
to
its
ultimate
source.
And
viewing
it
as
we
do
from
our
present
standpoint,
it
appears
to
be
purely
symbolic;
but
if
that
be
so,
then
we
must
deny
the
first
law
of
progress,
and
assign
the
origin
of
this
faculty
to
that
class
of
phenomena
known
as
miracles,
which
once
explained
by
increasing
the
mystery
what
we
could
not
understand,
and
served
at
the
same
time
to
conceal
the
exact
magnitude
of
our
ignorance;
but
as
we
added
little
by
little
to
our
stock
of
knowledge,
such
phenomena
were
brought
within
the
realm
of
our
understanding,
and
to-day
our
children
are
familiar
with
the
causes
of
many
simple
effects
which
our
forefathers
dared
not
attempt
to
solve,
but
reverently
ascribed
to
the
immediate
influence
of
Divinity.
If
speech
in
its
ultimate
nature
is
symbolic,
what
must
have
been
the
condition
of
man
before
its
invention,
and
how
did
he
arrive
at
the
first
term
or
sound
of
speech?
He
did
not
invent
sound
nor
the
means
of
making
it.
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