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The Speech of Monkeys
·
R. L. Garner
127
[Sidenote:
GRAMMAR
AND
RHETORIC]
In
the
more
refined
tongues
of
human
speech,
we
go
beyond
that
code
of
laws
called
grammar
and
amplify
them
into
rhetoric.
This
branch
of
the
science
of
speech
could
find
no
place
among
the
lower
types,
as
the
words
are
few
from
which
they
may
select;
and
so
exact
and
arbitrary
is
the
meaning
of
each
one,
and
so
uniform
the
relations,
that
no
great
variety
of
expression
can
be
made
with
such
a
limited
vocabulary.
Their
eloquence
is
in
their
brevity
of
speech.
But
while
the
types
of
speech
used
by
the
lower
primates
occupy
a
plane
so
low
in
the
scale,
they
are
as
truly
speech
as
the
vocal
organs
that
produce
the
sounds
are
truly
vocal
organs.
Life
is
life,
in
what
form
soever
it
is
found.
It
is
not
less
real
in
the
mollusc
than
in
the
man.
The
same
is
true
of
emotion,
of
thought,
of
expression,
and
of
speech.
Life,
emotion,
thought,
expression,
and
speech
began
in
embryo,
and
have
developed
co-ordinately
with
all
the
faculties
possessed
by
man.
They
are
as
dependent
upon
each
other
as
matter
is
on
force,
and
as
inseparable
as
light
from
energy.
Speech
is
the
physical
manifestation
of
which
thought
is
the
ultimate
force;
it
is
a
spoke
in
the
chariot-wheels
of
consciousness;
it
is
the
body
of
which
thought
is
the
soul.
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