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and pleasure to other living bodies that par- 

 ticipate in them through sympathetic throbs, 

 being thus fused together into a community 

 by means of feeling. The voice, accordingly, 

 is a great instrument of association already 

 far down among the animals; but its destiny 

 is to rise to articulate speech which in so many 

 ways associates human beings, and is itself a 

 wonderfully organized or associated product. 

 Language makes the community of souls pos- 

 sible through communication (or what makes 

 several individuals common), and is itself the 

 community which mediates the members of 

 the communal organization, and finally is to 

 make them conscious of the same through 

 its utterance. The thoughtful reader will nat- 

 urally think back to the beginning of Nature's 

 association in the cell and follow this ever- 

 advancing principle in the organ, in the or- 

 ganism, in the community of organisms both 

 of Plant and Animal, till he reaches man's as- 

 sociation in institutions, which have by no 

 means yet reached their final evolution. In- 

 deed man is hardly yet aware of his institu- 

 tional heritage, but must soon become so, if 

 he is to save it from the anarchic forces now 

 at work. Here, however, the main interest 

 is to see the evolution of the voice in the Ani- 

 mal as the chief medium of Nature's higher 

 association. 



