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The Speech of Monkeys
·
R. L. Garner
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CHAPTER
XXV.
Facts
and
Fancies
of
Speech--Language
in
the
Vegetable
Kingdom--Language
in
the
Mineral
Kingdom.
In
the
early
part
of
this
work
I
have
recorded
the
material
and
tangible
facts
with
which
I
have
dealt,
and
have
not
departed
from
such
facts
to
formulate
a
theory
beyond
a
working
hypothesis.
I
have
not
allowed
myself
to
be
transported
into
the
realm
of
fancy,
nor
have
I
claimed
for
my
work
anything
which
lies
beyond
the
bounds
of
proof.
But
in
the
wide
range
through
which
I
have
sought
for
the
first
hint
of
speech,
it
is
only
natural
that
many
theories
have
suggested
themselves
to
me
from
time
to
time,
some
of
which
would
appear
almost
like
the
dreams
of
hasheesh.
But
while
they
are
like
the
fairyland
of
speculation,
they
are
not
more
wild
and
incoherent
than
are
many
of
the
dogmas
of
metaphysics.
And
at
this
point
I
shall
digress
from
my
text
so
far
as
to
say
that
I
have
followed
the
motives
of
language
through
the
higher
planes
of
life
and
thence
downward
to
the
very
sunrise
to
the
vegetable
kingdom,
and
on
through
the
dim
twilight
across
the
mineral
world
to
that
point
where
elemental
matter
is
first
delivered
from
the
hands
of
force.
Standing
upon
the
elevated
plane
of
human
development,
it
is
difficult
for
man
to
stoop
to
the
level
of
those
inferior
forms
from
which
he
is
so
far
removed
in
all
his
faculties;
but
if
his
senses
could
be
made
so
delicate
as
to
discern
the
facts,
he
would
find
perhaps
that
in
the
polity
of
life
all
horizons
are
equidistant
from
each
other.
But
looking
back
from
where
he
stands,
his
powers
fail
to
reach
the
real
point
of
vital
force
at
which
all
life
began,
and
his
contracted
senses
bring
the
vanishing
point
of
this
perspective
far
into
the
foreground
of
the
facts.
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