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The Speech of Monkeys
·
R. L. Garner
124
By
some
eminent
men
of
letters
it
is
claimed
that
speech
was
invented,
and
therefore
cannot
be
universally
the
same;
and
this
is
proven
by
the
fact
that
different
tribes
of
men
have
different
tongues.
They
do
not
appear
to
realise,
that
to
the
first
cardinal
sounds
of
speech
so
much
has
been
added
age
by
age,
by
slow
accretions,
that
the
radex
of
speech
is
but
a
mere
drop
in
the
great
ocean
of
sounds.
The
mobility
of
speech
is
such
as
to
make
it
more
susceptible
to
change
than
matter
is;
and
yet
we
find
that,
by
the
laws
of
change,
man
has
been
evolved
from
a
less
complex
state
of
matter,
and
that
in
these
latter
years
he
can
only
be
identified
as
the
descendant
of
his
prototype
by
the
most
scrutinising
care,
and
by
picking
up
the
dropped
stitches
in
the
great
fabric
of
Nature.
To
illustrate
the
slow
and
imperceptible,
yet
never
ceasing,
never
failing
process
of
evolution,
we
may
imagine
a
man
picking
up
a
single
grain
of
sand
at
a
certain
point
and
carrying
it
a
distance
of
a
thousand
feet,
where
he
deposits
it
at
another
certain
point;
returning,
takes
a
second
grain
of
sand
from
the
same
place
as
he
secured
the
first,
and
carries
it
to
the
point
at
which
he
deposited
the
first,
and
thus
continues
through
his
life.
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