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The Speech of Monkeys
·
R. L. Garner
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CHAPTER
XVIII.
The
Motives
of
Speech--Expression--The
Beginning
of
Human
Speech--The
Present
Condition
of
Speech.
In
vital
economy,
the
search-light
of
science
has
found
the
protoplasm
which
from
our
present
state
of
knowledge
seems
to
be
the
first
point
of
contact
between
elemental
matter
and
the
vital
force.
What
secrets
of
biology
remain
unknown
within
the
realm
of
life,
only
those
who
live
in
the
future
may
ever
know.
In
the
first
condition
of
vitalised
matter
we
find
the
evidence
of
autonomy.
Whatever
may
be
the
ultimate
force
which
actuates
this
monad,
the
manifestations
of
its
presence
and
the
result
of
its
energy
are
seen
externally.
Whatever
may
be
the
nature
of
that
force
which
imparts
motion
to
matter,
the
first
impulse
of
the
biod
is
to
secure
food
or
to
associate
itself
with
a
unit
of
its
own
kind.
This
is
perhaps
the
first
act
of
volition
within
the
sphere
of
life,
the
first
expression
of
some
internal
want,
and
is
the
first
faint
suggestion
of
a
consciousness,
however
feeble;
and
I
may
add
with
propriety,
that
it
is
my
opinion
that
the
vital
and
psychic
forces
operate
in
a
manner
not
unlike
the
electric
and
chemical
forces.
They
appear
to
polarise,
and
in
this
condition
act
on
matter
in
harmony
with
that
great
law
of
Nature
under
which
positive
repels
positive
and
attracts
negative,
and
vice
versa.
We
shall
not
attempt
to
follow
the
tedious
steps
of
progress
from
inanimate
matter
to
man,
but
begin
with
those
intermediate
forms
which
are
so
far
developed
as
to
utter
sounds
and
understand
the
sounds
of
others.
We
will
deal
only
with
tangible
facts
as
we
find
them.
From
whatever
source
expression
may
arise,
or
at
whatever
point
it
may
appear,
it
is
prompted
by
desire
or
some
kindred
emotion,
either
positive
or
negative.
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