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The Speech of Monkeys
·
R. L. Garner
118
To
believe
that
there
was
a
time
in
the
history
of
the
human
race
when
man
could
not
speak,
is
to
destroy
his
identity
as
man,
and
the
romance
of
the
alalus
could
be
justified
from
a
scientific
standpoint
only
as
a
compromise
between
the
giants
of
science
and
superstition.
Among
the
tribes
of
men
whose
modes
of
life
are
simple,
whose
wants
are
few,
and
whose
knowledge
is
confined
to
their
primitive
condition,
the
number
of
words
necessary
to
convey
their
thoughts
is
very
limited.
Among
some
savage
races
there
are
languages
consisting
of
only
a
few
hundred
words
at
most,
while
as
we
rise
in
the
scale
of
civil
and
domestic
culture,
languages
become
more
copious
and
expressive
as
the
wants
become
more
numerous
and
the
conditions
of
life
more
complex.
As
we
descend
from
man
to
the
lower
animals,
we
find
the
types
of
speech
degenerate
just
in
proportion
as
we
descend
in
the
mental
and
moral
plane,
but
it
does
not
lose
its
identity
as
speech.
Through
the
whole
animal
kingdom
from
man
to
protozoa,
types
of
speech
differ
as
do
the
physical
types
to
which
they
belong.
But
as
the
same
vital
processes
are
found
throughout
the
whole
circle
of
life,
so
the
same
phonetic
basis
is
found
through
the
whole
range
of
speech.
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