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Ch. II

neither require require nor use any a language. The intimate connection between the brain, as it is now developed in us, & the faculty of speech is apparently shown by those curious cases of brain-injury disease, in which speech is specially affected, as when the power to remember nouns is lost, whilst other words are remembered recollected & the general intelligence seems to be little or not at all affected deteriorated. *(30) There is no more difficulty in believing that the effects of the continued & rising use of the vocal & mental organs would be inherited, than in the case of hand-writing, which partly depends on the structure of the hand, & partly on the disposition of the person, being inherited, as & this is hand-writing is certainly the case inherited. *(31)

We can see why the how it is happened that once formed the vocal organs have been which are now employed & perpetuated for speech first came to be thus first used.

Ants have large powers of intercommunication, so that Pierre Huber gives a whole chapter