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(I will notice only three other of the more important differences [illeg] distringuishing man & brutes the lower animals. First for articulate language, perhaps the most important of all. But this language as Horne Tooke, one of the great founders of the science of philology, remarked has observed is an act, like brewing or baking, but writing would perhaps have been a better simile. That it is an act is clearly shown, for it has to be taught. The fundamental principle & use of language using to learn in the largest sense is the intercommunication namely the communication of ideas & of emotoins from one individual to another, either by sounds or signs, or expression or touch; & this is common to almost all animals, even to insects A do or monkey plainly understands much what that his master may say to him.

In the same manner as all organic beings bear in their structure proofs of their origin by descent from other forms [illeg] or origin; (3 so I cannot hesitate to admit, after having read the works of Mr Hensleigh Wedgwood & Mr Farrar, that language bears in it structures the [impulse] of its origin to the imitation of various sounds, including the sound the various instinctive cries. When we remember how much monkeys are addicted to imitation it is not surprising [illeg] inaudible that they to some man-like species, as they apes, as it

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