OF THE ORANG, CHIMPANZEE, AND GORILLA. 85 every chief fissure and fold in Man has its analogy in the Orang, the Chimpanzee, and the Gorilla, as may be seen by comparing the Brain of Man with that of the Orang, as represented in Figures 7 and 8. I admit all this, and I agree with Hallam that "the framework of the body of him who has weighed the stars, and made the lightning his slave, approaches to that of the speechless brute that wanders in the forests of Sumatra." Whilst, however, conceding that Man, in his purely physical nature, is closely allied to certain members of the brute creation, I entirely repudiate the inference drawn from this analogy by Mr. Darwin and other writers of the modern school of thought; for supposing it to be proved to a mathematical demonstration, that Man is like an Ape, bone for bone, muscle for muscle, 86 LANGUAGE A DIFFERENCE OF KIND. nerve for nerve, what then? What does this prove, if it can be shown that Man possesses a distinctive attribute, of which not a trace can be found in the Ape,-an attribute of such a nature as to create an immeasurable gulf between the two? This attribute I assert to be the faculty of Articulate Language, which I maintain to be a difference, not only of degree, but of kind. CHAPTER IV. Τὰ δὲ ζωοτόκα καὶ τετράποδα ζῶα ἄλλο ἄλλην ἀφίησι φωνήν, διάλεκτον δ' οὐδὲν ἔχει, ἀλλ' ἴδιον τοῦτ ̓ ἀνθρώπου ἐστίν. ARISTOT. Hist. Anim. iv. 9. 16. Definition of Language-Stoddart, Trench, Whitney, and Farrar-Language, a Distinctive Attribute of Man-The so-called language of the Parrot considered-Connection between Ideas and Words-Cases of Heterophasia. Having been engaged for some years past in studying the question of the localisation of the Faculty of Speech, and believing that my published researches furnish a powerful and original argument against the doctrine of evolution, I trust I may, without presumption, be allowed to indulge the hope that I can furnish an |