Intellectual Identities of Mankind, 6 1 



mourning in grief ; inscribed on monuments in 

 desert isles, printed in the page of civilized peace; 

 bearing down through all time and space upon earth 

 the tenderest thoughts and feelings from the hearts 

 that are now no more. 



66. To be quite candid, we should not disguise 

 the fact that a certain species of modern science 

 thinks very differently of this noble 



Talking Apes 



faculty. It has referred the origin of and Sub- 

 language to a prehistoric ape, which tried mer s e <* Con- 

 to take off the savage howls of other sav- 

 age beasts; and improving by the practice became 

 the anthropitheque, whose acquaintance we made be- 

 fore (No. 40) ; and in that capacity gasped for articu- 

 lation, and got it; becoming therewith an Aryan 

 ancestor of ours, who pitched his tent in Asia. But 

 as no Aryan anthropitheque has now been found in 

 Asia, it has been thought safer to pitch his tent for 

 him in a submerged continent, calling it Atlantis. 

 To quote a Mr. Heath, F. A. S. L., who dates from 

 some time and portion of creation which at present 

 we forget — Mr. Southall reports him: " It is known 

 that there were anthropoid apes; it is knowable 

 that they gasped after articulation, and that those 

 who attained to it are Aryans, whether of Asia, or 

 of the submerged continent of Atlantis." This 

 gentleman is doubtless a little trenchant in his style; 

 making up with the pride of assertion for the poverty 

 of fact. Other scientists, equally poor, are less 

 proud. Even Professor Haeckel is more meek amid 



