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passions of their kind; but the gulf be-
tween man and what he, with the ego
tism of the race, denominates the lower
animals is wide one The power
which inhercs in man by virtue of the
possession of that means of expression
and mental exchange which We call
language has placed him upon a lofty
tablcland, with possibilities, as yet I'M
dreamed, Of higher hei ghts aid purer
airs.
The m )nNcy, which approaches man
50 near in physical structure as to
seem travesty on humanity. has, III
line with the structural similitude, a
wider range of articulate sounds than
appertains to any other of the lower
animals; but that student and philolo-
gist who has made the language of the
Simian race special subject of study
claims for the monkey 4 range Of only
twenty words, while English speaking
man to express or conceal his meaning,
avails himself of more than seventy-five
thousand.
But it is not with the fact that man
possesses that means of expression we
call language, nor with the amplitude
of that possession ard its possibilities
of continued accretion, that we wish to
concern ourselves now. The problem
proposed for solution is how he became
possessed of this means of expression.
Philologists generally will concede
that among animals most richly en-
dowed with the parental instinct may
be found the widest range of sounds,
cries, gestures, and the muscular mo-
bility through which, and by which,
thought and feeling may find express
sion. Love is strong and fertile in re-
sources, and. under the stimulus ofthis
tender passion, perception is quicAened.
The sluggish and stupid develop cum
ming, the timid become courageous, and
| the natural srcretivenesS Of all is inten-
siied when the young are to be nour-
ished and protected.
Among the feathered tribe we find
the most perfect types ofparental love.
How vigilant they are, and how tire
less: how wisely the nest is wrought,
how deftly screened in unsupported
nook, in secret crany; or. if of farboreal
habit, how securely lashed to the wind
swung hough! In the infancy of the
nesting, unhcdged, sightless dependent
that it is. the parent birds ply the cor
slant wing, and guard with unsleeping
eye.
Poised above The rim of their little
world, they pour the full tide OF their
happy loving hearts (happy, because
loving) in W rdlesS song, or cheer with
soft twitteringS their screened nest
lings. The tenure of birds love is but
brief, the idvl of a summer, Lut-let us
say for 1.-THE idyl is Il perfect one.
Among the large carnivora and the
huge pachyderms we find love of Off
spring strongly developed; and all the
family of the quadrumana, along with
their structural similarity, resemble
man in strength of parental feeling.
Man. recognizing the nobility of the
trait. values most highly those crea-
lures most richly endowed Herewith.
This estimate is partly due to the fact
that this love acts as gentle stimu-
liant to every faculty; they are more
intelligent, and. because of thf intelli-
gencc, more compaaionable. The SER
timent is one to which our own hearts
respond. 1t is the touch of nature
| that makes the whole world n,' senti-
mcnt beings kin.
The young of the human family are
| the most helpless and dependent of all
creatures: and this condition of help
lessncss and dependency is prolonged
| by the slower development ofthe races,
many orders Of life completing their
! cycle of existence while the human in
f;lnt is still in the embryonic stage.
Primitive man and his hardy mate
might have borne the fierce heat of the
| tropical summer, and the steady down.
/ pour of its winter; the inclemency of a
more rigorous climate might even have
/ been endured: but for their tender of.
I spring some shelter had to be devised
other than that afforded hv the arm
an! breast of love- This tender feel
inI, struggling through many an age
Tor expression, ut length voiced itself
in architecture. From the jungle lair
/ Of the tropic savagt, from the skin
shelter of the desert nomad. from the
II 'glodyte's dark, mephitic cavern, has
.ossomcd forth, hy the slow process of
the years. that perfect flower of the
Il .es. til leal home of to-day.
As the Young of the human race de-
velop very SLOW y, they are Of necessi-
ty loag drp,nl,nt uppn parental Icve
and care, and nature. which ever Won
derlullv adapts means to an end, Sc
cured the prrpetuation of the race by
lberaliy cnrlowing primitive man, say,
age though he b., with the f,culty OF
loving
As every faculty or power of body
mind, or heart grows hy that it feeds
upon. the constant exercise of this pow
er of loving increased its range. and
also widened the Possibilities of the