Dr. Bateman on Darwinism. 41 



" 1. That articulate speech is a distinctive at- 

 tribute of man, and that the ape and lower an- 

 imals do not possess a trace of it. 



" 2. That articulate speech is a universal ak. 

 tribute of man ; that all races have a language, or 

 the capacity of acquiring it. 



" 3. The immateriality of the faculty of speech." 



It is perhaps hardly correct to call this last 

 point a " proposition," nor is it easy to determine 

 precisely its purport or its relevance. We are 

 told farther on that, although " a certain normal 

 and healthy state of cerebral tissue is necessary 

 for the exterior manifestation of the faculty of 

 speech," it by no means follows that speech is 

 located in a particular portion of the brain, or is 

 the " result of a certain definite molecular condi- 

 tion of the cerebral organ." Of course it does not 

 follow ; but the conclusion, however interesting 

 to phrenologists and materialists, is irrelevant to 

 the discussion of the Darwinian theory, or to that 

 of the origin of language. In such inquiries all 

 that any one needs to know is that the faculty of 

 speech implies, among other things, the presence 

 of a brain, and whether this " faculty " is to be 

 called " immaterial " or not is quite beside the 

 question. 



Our author's argumentation, it will be rightly 



