Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 276, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1913 — Peculiar Belief. [ARTICLE]

Peculiar Belief.

Two centuries have passed since the Scottish Judge Lord Monboddo was born. In his “Origin and Progress of Language” he argued that human beings should be studied like other animals; but this doctrine Beemed to the contemporaries of Dr. Johnson so ridiculous that the wags based many a jest upon it. His belief that men got rid of their tails by sitting upon them would now scarcely raise a smile among anthropologists. Among his more startling proposition was the earnestly maintained one that the ou-rang-outang "was a class of the human specieß, and that its want of speech wbb merely accidental.”