Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1899 — Speech. [ARTICLE]

Speech.

The ancient pagans had a beautiful legend touching the origin of speech. In that connection these ancients .harkened forward a few centuries and conceived that the gods made man from a monkey. But after the gods had thus constructed a being conscious of himself, they pitied him and bad their misgivings. “Accordingly,” the gods are represented to have exclaimed, “we shall endow man with the power of speech, in order that he may make a monkey of himself again, if he choose.” ‘ In former times, it is related, many men took advantage of this generous option.—Detroit Journal.