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The Speech of Monkeys
·
R. L. Garner
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To
show
how
poorly
this
gigantic
superstructure
of
fossilised
science
is
supported
by
the
facts,
I
have
developed
such
effects
in
the
phonograph
from
a
basis
of
sounds
purely
mechanical,
and
without
the
aid
of
any
part
of
the
vocal
apparatus
of
man
or
animal.
The
sounds
from
which
I
have
developed
such
results
were
neither
vowel
nor
consonant
as
those
sounds
are
defined,
but
simply
prolonged
musical
notes.
In
another
chapter
will
be
found
some
of
the
experiments
which
I
have
performed
with
the
phonograph
in
the
investigation
of
sounds
of
various
kinds.
If
I
am
allowed
to
think
for
myself
at
all,
I
am
not
ready
to
accept
as
final
some
of
the
dogmas
on
the
theory
of
sound
which
have
long
been
held
and
taught,
and
many
of
which
remain
orthodox
for
no
other
reason
than
that
no
one
has
denied
them.
I
am
not
ready
at
this
point
to
spring
upon
the
world
any
new
theory
of
sound,
but
I
am
quite
ready
to
refuse
to
believe
some
of
the
tenets
set
forth
in
the
creeds
of
philology.
Heresy
is
the
author
of
progress,
and
I
confess
myself
a
heretic
on
many
of
the
current
doctrines
of
the
science
of
sounds.
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