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could be applied to the languages. The 

 realm of speech is too widely different from 

 both the animal and vegetable kingdoms to 

 make the science of language a test of all 

 Darwin's inductions and their details. 



So much the more positive however, in 

 the realm of speech, is the origin of species 

 through gradual ramification and the preser- 

 vation of the higher organisms in the struggle 

 for existence. The two main points in 

 Darwin's theory have this in common with 

 many other important discoveries, that they 

 are confirmed even in those spheres which 

 at first had been left unnoticed.* 



* Darwin briefly touches the point of languages, and 

 rightly suspects that the mutual kinship of the same would be 

 a confirmation of his theory. — A. Vide p. 498, 4th Edition. 



