294 THE HISTORY OF CREATION. 



an inquiring mind from comparative philology (from the 

 " comparative anatomy " of language), and especially from 

 the history of the development of language in every child 

 (" glottal ontogenesis ") as well as in every nation (" glottal 

 phylogenesis "). 



Twenty-second Stage : Men (Homines). 



Genuine Men, developed out of the Ape-like Men of the 

 preceding stage by the gradual development of the animal 

 language of sounds into a connected or articulate language 

 of words. The development of this function, of course, 

 went hand in hand with the development of its organs, 

 namely, the higher differentiation of the larynx and the 

 brain. The transition from speechless Ape-like Men to 

 Genuine or Talking Men probably took place at the begin- 

 ning of the Quaternary period, namely, in the Diluvial 

 period, but possibly even at an earlier date, in the more 

 recent Tertiary. As, according to the unanimous opinion 

 of most eminent philologists, all human languages are not 

 derived from a common primaeval language, we must assume 

 a polyphyletic origin of language, and in accordance with 

 this a polyphyletic transition from speechless Ape-like Men 

 to Genuine Mea 



