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The Speech of Monkeys
·
R. L. Garner
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Social
intercourse
among
men
has
been
the
chief
means
of
developing
human
speech,
and
we
find
a
true
index
to
its
condition
in
the
social
status
of
the
different
races
of
mankind;
and
by
coming
closer
home,
we
find
that
even
in
different
communities
of
the
same
race
and
within
the
limits
of
the
same
nation,
a
difference
in
the
accuracy
and
volume
of
speech,
which
is
measured
by
the
difference
of
social
culture.
We
find
in
rural
districts,
sparsely
peopled
and
remote
from
the
great
centres
of
population,
that
speech
is
less
polished
and
the
number
of
words
used
greatly
reduced
in
comparison
to
the
same
language
used
in
the
great
cities
and
more
populous
communities,
where,
by
reason
of
contact
with
each
other
and
the
constant
use
of
speech,
the
vocal
powers
are
much
more
developed
and
the
command
of
language
very
much
improved.
This
same
law
of
development,
inversely
applied,
would
lead
us
in
a
direct
line
down
through
Nature,
rank
by
rank,
and
we
would
find
it
a
reliable
unit
of
measure
throughout
the
whole
perspective
of
development.
The
faculties
of
music,
taste,
and
reason
are
measured
by
a
like
unit.
It
is
difficult
to
trace
the
musical
powers
of
animals,
since
music
does
not
contribute
to
the
comfort
or
development
of
types
and
only
affords
pleasure
to
the
intellectual
being,
and
hence
is
only
an
accomplishment
obeying
no
rule
of
normal
growth.
[Sidenote:
THE
FACULTY
OF
REASON]
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