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The Speech of Monkeys
·
R. L. Garner
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I
have
referred
elsewhere,
without
describing
it,
to
the
sound
which
Nellie
used
for
calling,
and
which
she
employed
when
attempting
to
dissuade
my
wife
from
going
out
and
leaving
her
alone.
It
is
a
peculiar
sound,
something
like
a
whine,
but
very
plaintive
and
suggestive.
I
cannot
represent
it
in
letters.
[Sidenote:
THE
CAPUCHIN
TONGUE]
There
are
many
sounds
about
which
I
am
yet
in
doubt,
and
some
shades
of
meaning
are
not
clear,
but
these
sounds
described
include
the
greater
part
of
my
knowledge
of
the
Capuchin
tongue,
and
I
shall
now
proceed
to
the
sounds
of
some
of
the
other
monkeys.
Standing
on
this
frail
bridge
of
speech,
I
see
into
that
broad
field
of
life
and
thought
which
lies
beyond
the
confines
of
our
care,
and
into
which,
through
the
gates
that
I
have
now
unlocked,
may
soon
be
borne
the
sunshine
of
human
intellect.
What
prophet
now
can
foretell
the
relations
which
may
yet
obtain
between
the
human
race
and
those
inferior
forms
which
fill
some
place
in
the
design,
and
execute
some
function
in
the
economy
of
nature?
A
knowledge
of
their
language
cannot
injure
man,
and
may
conduce
to
the
good
of
others,
because
it
would
lessen
man's
selfishness,
widen
his
mercy,
and
restrain
his
cruelty.
It
would
not
place
man
more
remote
from
his
divinity,
nor
change
the
state
of
facts
which
now
exist.
Their
speech
is
the
only
gateway
to
their
minds,
and
through
it
we
must
pass
if
we
would
learn
their
secret
thoughts
and
measure
the
distance
from
mind
to
mind.
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