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w!i enCe ~ ^ sav . a S 6 g lves full and unrestrained ges- 
tural expression to his feelings and emotions,— his articulate 
language is often too limited and feeble to supply the place of 
gesture ; whereas we, with our copious vocabulary, can dis- 
pense with it; and we not unfrequently use effort to check 
and suppress what, if we were speechless, would be our only 
resource, and what, therefore, it would be our great object as 
social creatures, to cultivate and amplify. b J ’ 
Whenever we use gesture,— and use it we do, in spite of all 
our endeavours to curb nature,— we use it, for the most part 
I w?r fh“ S 7 ’’ and t , hei : efo . re ' t0 o^selves, it escapes notice 
nrincLl of T nlng f° T 1 * 6 y ° Ur attention to of the 
!Ln P 1 f t j eS ? natural . gestures, to show you what they 
really are ; and, by directing your special notice to what, when 
engaged m animated discourse, you yourselves do, to show 
you, by ocular proof, that you unconsciously employ the lan- 
guage of gesticulation to an extent you little suspect ; in short 
that you use the natural signs of the deaf and dumb, which, in 
family ^ ^ ^ Uatural si S ns of the whole human 
eiw/r feSS ° r Y ° Ung e ? hibited various gesticulations and 
cas P es wW L fe r r eaniDg ' {• WaS s P eoia % noticed, that in all 
cases wheie feeling or emotion was expressed, the eye of the 
observer was steadily directed to the countenance, the manual 
gns being but auxiliary — natural, but subordinate.] 
aincv n mnn h m 7^“ Sufficien % shown that, by whatever 
gency man made his appearance in the world, he came 
endowed with the ability to communicate with his fellows in a 
language intelligible to all, a language requiring no con- 
yet amply 5 suffic' 1 ^’ T l0 3F &nd laborious efforts to construct, 
wants and fof 7 l 7 the ex P ression of all his physical 
objects iV™. intercourse respecting all the natural 
rounded cllcumsta uces with which he might be sur- 
Now it must be remembered that, according to theories 
ancient and modern, the primitive race of mankind was a 
Shi;? T S i raC d ~ a 77 inferi ° r eYen t0 tbe P resent uatives of 
it must wt ° r ° f *h e interior of Australia : without speech 
it must have been so. It has been said that such a people 
teach Ihemser m 't S r tiC c late as wel1 as they can 
teach themselves to make a fire. But the savage is driven by 
necessity to devise means for kindling a fire. What stern 
necessity is there to drive him to originate a spoken language 
even supposing him to possess the ability ? What is therein 
