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species of the same genus may be compared, as I would add, to with the languages of the distinct races of man.

(With respect to the origin of articulate language, I cannot doubt, after having reading the very interesting works of Mr Hensleigh Wedgwood, the Revd Fr. Farrar & Prof. Aug. Schleicher *(26) that language first on the one side, & the celebrated work of Max Müller on the other side, I cannot doubt that language first arose from the imitation, in aid of signs & gestures, of various natural sounds, the voices of other animals, & man's own instinctive crys cries or interpretations, under the when excitement of under the different emotions

When we treat of sexual selection we shall see that primeval man or rather some the early progenitors of many man probably used used their his voice largely, like as does one of the gibbon-apes apes at the present day, in producing producing true musical cadences, that is in singing; & judging from a widely spread spread analogy we may conclude that this musical note would be emitted especially power would have been especially brought into play during the courtship of the sexes, & would serving to express various emotions, as love love & the tendered emotions affections,, rivalry jealousy,