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have no germs of reason, and the inference 

 is drawn that man cannot be conceived as 

 having derived his own reasoning powers and 

 command of language through descent from 

 beings in which no germ of either can 

 be found. The relations therefore between 

 thought and language, interesting in them- 

 selves, acquire additional importance from the 

 fact of their having become the battle-ground 

 between those who say that the theory of 

 descent breaks down with man, and those 

 who maintain that we are descended from 

 some ape-like ancestor long since extinct. 



The contention of those who refuse to ad- 

 mit man unreservedly into the scheme of 

 evolution is comparatively recent. The great 

 propounders of evolution, Buffon, Erasmus 

 Darwin and Lamarck not to mention a 

 score of others who wrote at the close of the 

 last and early part of this present century 

 had no qualms about admitting man into 

 their system. They have been followed in 

 this respect by the late Mr. Charles Darwin, 

 and by the greatly more influential part of 



our modern biologists, who hold that whatever 



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