l6o THE SPEECH OF MONKEYS. 



eloquence is in their brevity of speech. But 

 while the types of speech used by the lower pri- 

 mates occupy a plane so low in the scale, they 

 ars as truly speech as the vocal organs that pro- 

 duce the sounds are truly vocal organs. Life is 

 life, in what form soever it is found. It is not 

 less real in the mollusk than in the man. The 

 same is true of emotion, of thought, of expres- 

 sion, and of speech. Life, emotion, thought, ex- 

 pression, and speech began in embryo, and have 

 developed co-ordinately with all the faculties pos- 

 sessed by man. They are as dependent upon 

 each other as matter is on force, and as insepa- 

 rable as light from energy. Speech is the phys- 

 ical manifestation of which thought is the ulti- 

 mate force ; it is a spoke in the chariot-wheels of 

 consciousness ; it is the body of which thought 

 is the soul. 



