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The Speech of Monkeys
·
R. L. Garner
117
It
seems
consistent
with
what
we
know
of
Nature,
to
suppose
that
the
vocal
organs
of
these
lower
forms
are
being
developed
to
meet
a
new
requirement
in
the
animal
economy,
or
having
once
discharged
some
function
necessary
to
the
being
and
comfort
of
the
animal,
they
are
now
lapsing
into
disuse
and
becoming
atrophied.
If
they
are
in
the
course
of
development,
it
argues
that
the
creature
which
possesses
them
must
possess
a
rudimentary
speech
which
is
developing
at
a
like
rate
into
a
higher
type
of
speech.
If
they
are
in
a
state
of
decay
or
atrophy,
it
argues
that
the
animal
must
have
been
able
to
speak
at
some
former
period,
and
that
now,
in
losing
the
power
of
speech
it
is
gradually
losing
the
organ.
In
either
case,
the
organs
themselves
would
be
in
a
state
of
development
in
harmony
with
the
condition
of
the
speech
of
the
animal.
[Sidenote:
LIMITATIONS
OF
SPEECH]
The
function
which
speech
discharges
is
the
communication
of
ideas,
and
its
growth
must
depend
upon
the
extent
of
those
ideas;
and
in
all
conditions
of
life,
and
in
all
forms
of
the
animal
kingdom,
the
uses
of
speech
are
confined
to,
and
limited
by
the
desires,
thoughts,
and
concepts
of
those
using
it.
Its
extent
is
commensurate
with
requirement.
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