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the botanists ; tliis is a peculiarity recurring' 

 in all classification and specification, to which 

 I shall have occasion to refer again.* The 

 species of a genus are what we call the lan- 

 guages of a family, the races of a species are 

 with us the dialects of a language ; the sub- 

 dialects or patois correspond with the 

 varieties of the species, and that which is 

 characteristic of a person's mode of speak- 

 ingt corresponds with the individual. It 

 is well known that the individuals of one 

 and the same species are never altogether 

 and absolutely identical ; it is the same with 

 the individual of speech ; " native accent " 

 is always more or less strongly developed. 

 What Darwin now maintains with regard 



* And which has beset the translator here with great 

 difficulties, which he does not flatter himself that he has 

 altogether surmounted. — T. 



f Native accent I venture to call it : a phenomenon well 

 worthy of the investigation of the physiologist. — T. 



