CHAPTER V 

 THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE 



T F Evolution is the method of Creation, the 

 ^ faculty of Speech was no sudden gift. Man's 

 mind is not to be thought of as the cylinder of 

 a phonograph to which ready-made words were 

 spoken and stored up for future use. Before Homo 

 sapiens was evolved he must necessarily have been 

 preceded for a longer or shorter period by Homo 

 alalus, the not-speaking man ; and this man had 

 to make his words, and beginning with dumb signs 

 and inarticulate cries to build up a body of Lan- 

 guage word by word as the body was built up cell 

 by cell. 



The alternative theory of the origin of Language 

 universally held until lately, and expressed in so 

 many words even by the eighth edition of the 

 Encyclopcedia Britannica^ that " our first parents 

 received it by immediate inspiration," has the same 



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