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though not so much beyond what the 

 average of them possessed as to suppose a 

 miraculous development" 



Mr. Heath then proceeds to account for 

 the formation of articulate language. He 

 depicts a small band of six well-armed and 

 speaking Aryans coming suddenly upon a 

 crowd of what he calls mute " kitcheners/' 

 and imposing their language on these 

 unfortunate mutes. " Now follow," he 

 says, "the leader of the six Aryans in his 

 first lesson, to the crowd of 300 mutes 

 around him. Naturally he would get the 

 crowd to pronounce after him some short 

 syllables, such as pa, ta, ka, to illustrate 

 the use of lips, palate and throat, and very 

 naturally the four or five men, or women 

 more likely, just in front of him would 

 pronounce them rightly, but not one man 

 in fifty can tell the real effect of his work 

 on a crowd. On returning to their wig- 

 wams, much would be the emotion of risi- 

 bility and imitativeness displayed that night 

 among the natives ! " Doubtless ! 



The same speculating cleric in the 



