294 THE HISTORY OF CREATION. 
an inquiring mind from comparative philology (from the 
“comparative anatomy” of language), and especially from 
the history of the development of language in every child 
(“glottal ontogenesis ”) as well as in every nation (“glottal 
phylogenesis ”). 
TWENTY-SECOND STAGE: Men (Homines). 
Genuine Men, developed out of the Ape-like Men of the 
preceding stage by the gradual development of the animal 
language of sounds into a connected or articulate language, 
of words. The development of this function, of course, 
went hand in hand with the development of its organs, 
namely, the higher differentiation of the larynx and the 
brain. The transition from speechless Ape-like Men to 
Genuine or Talking Men probably took place at the begin- 
ning of the Quaternary period, namely, in the Diluvial 
period, but possibly even at an earlier date, in the more 
recent Tertiary. As, according to the unanimous opinion 
of most eminent philologists, all human languages are not 
derived from a common primeval language, we must assume 
a polyphyletic origin of language, and in accordance with 
this a polyphyletic transition from speechless Ape-like Men 
to Genuine Men. 
