THE SPEECH OF MONKEYS. 20$ 



through the vegetable world we find the same, 

 and so on through animals to the highest type. In 

 the lower planes types are more strictly adhered 

 to, habits and food more rigidly observed, while 

 among the highest types of cultivated plants we 

 find a great diversity of fruit and bloom., the capa- 

 bility of transplanting, and the creation of new 

 species without losing the generic identity of the 

 plant or even making it questionable. In the 

 animal kingdom the same law is complied with, 

 and step by step as we ascend the same types 

 show greater and greater diversity, until we reach 

 man, the climax of all life — and within his 

 genus variation knows no bound. 



In conclusion, I may say that man as he now is 

 has the faculty of speech. It is reasonable to be- 

 lieve that he has always had this faculty since 

 he was man. If there has ever been a time in the 

 history of his organism when he acquired his be- 

 ing from some progenitor which was not man, he 

 acquired at the same time the faculty of speech, 

 and that progenitor did not impart a thing which 

 he did not have. While it is true that speech, as 

 I have used it, is confined to vocal sounds, other 

 modes of expression have preceded it, and such 

 has been a common faculty inherent through all 



