302 THE HISTORY OF CREATION, 
the process of natural selection, and have divided into 
many species and dialects. 
I have no space here to follow the process of the forma- 
tion of language, and must refer in regard to this to the 
above-mentioned important work of Wilhelm Bleek, “On 
the Origin of Language.”* But we have still to mention 
one of the most important results of comparative philology, 
which is of the highest importance to the genealogy of the 
human species, that is, that human language was probably 
of a multiple, or polyphyletic origin. Human speech, as 
such, did not develop probably until the genus of Speech- 
less or Primzeval Man, or Ape Man, had separated into several 
kinds or species. In each of these human species, and 
perhaps even in the different sub-species and varieties of 
this species, language developed freely and independently 
of the others. At least Schleicher, one of the first 
authorities on the subject, maintains that “even the 
beginnings of language—in sounds as well as in regard to 
ideas and views which were reflected in sounds, and further, 
in regard to their capability of development—must have 
been different. For it is positively impossible to trace all 
languages to one and the same primeval language. An 
impartial investigation rather shows that there are as many 
primzeval languages as there are races.” ®* In like manner, 
Friederich Miiller*! and other eminent linguists assume a | 
free and independent origin of the families of languages 
and their primeval stocks. It is well known, however, 
that the boundaries of these tribes of languages and their 
ramifications are by no means always the boundaries 
of the different human species, or the so-called “races,” 
distinguished by us on account of their bodily character- 
