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The Speech of Monkeys
·
R. L. Garner
156
From
the
highest
type
of
human
speech
to
the
feeblest
hint
of
expression
there
is
a
gradual
descent,
and
at
no
point
between
these
two
extremes
can
there
be
drawn
a
line
at
which
it
may
be
said
"here
one
begins,
and
here
another
ends."
The
same
is
true
of
other
faculties;
and
from
the
vital
centre
at
which
matter
first
receives
the
touch
of
life
to
the
circumference
of
the
vital
sphere,
all
powers
radiate
alike,
and
there
is
no
point
that
I
can
find
between
that
centre
and
infinity
at
which
some
new
endowment
intercepts
the
line.
Descending
the
scale
of
life
by
long
strides,
from
man
to
the
lowest
form
of
zooids,
we
cannot
designate
the
point
at
which
a
faculty
is
first
imparted
to
the
form
which
has
it,
and
this
truth
extends
throughout
the
vital
cosmos.
[Sidenote:
LANGUAGE
IN
THE
VEGETABLE
KINGDOM]
The
line
of
demarcation
which
separates
the
animal
and
vegetable
is
but
a
wavering,
blended
mezzotint,
and
the
highest
forms
of
vegetable
life
seem
to
overlap
the
lowest
forms
of
animal,
so
far
that
no
dividing
line
is
positively
fixed.
The
highest
types
of
vegetable
seem
to
have
the
faculty
of
expression
in
a
degree
corresponding
to,
and
in
harmony
with,
the
rest
of
their
organism.
I
do
not
mean
to
say
that
the
impulse
under
which
a
plant
acts
is
synonymously
with
that
which
prompts
the
animal,
but
both
appear
to
be
the
effect
of
the
same
cause.
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