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the process of natural selection, and have divided into 

 many species and dialects. 



I have no space here to follow the process of the forma- 

 tion of language, and must refer in regard to this to the 

 above-mentioned important work of WUhelm Bleek, " On 

 the Origin of Language." ^^ But we have still to mention 

 one of the most important results of comparative philology, 

 which is of the highest importance to the genealogy of the 

 human species, that is, that human language was probably 

 of a multiple, or polyphyletic origin. Human speech, as 

 such, did not develop probably until the genus of Speech- 

 less or PrimEBval Man, or Ape Man, had separated into several 

 kinds or species. In each of these human species, and 

 perhaps even in the different sub-species and varieties of 

 this species, language developed freely and independently 

 of the others. At least Schleicher, one of the first 

 authorities on the subject, maintains that " even the 

 beginnings of language — in sounds as well as in regard to 

 ideas and views which were reflected in somids, and further, 

 in regard to their capability of development — must have 

 been difierent. For it is positively impossible to trace all 

 languages to one and the same primaeval language. An 

 impartial investigation rather shows that there are as many 

 primseval languages as there are races." ^ In like manner, 

 Friederich Muller*^ and other emiaent linguists assume a 

 free and independent origia of the families of languages 

 and their primaeval stocks. It is well known, however, 

 that the boundaries of these tribes of languages and their 

 ramifications are by no means always the boundaries 

 of the difierent human species, or the so-caUed "races," 

 distinguished by us on account of their bodily character- 



