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fledged SCIENTISTS it would be we'll to tell those who
are in darkness when or how it was invented Was
this wonderful Acquisition of experience" made in
or outside of society! Not the former, since So
ciety Is inconceivable without language. Language
makes society, that Is without language society is
an impossibility. Outside of society could not
create language. His ingenuity may call forth
some signs but these being peculiar to himself, of
what avail would they be to the rest of humanity?
How communicate to fellow man what these signs
mean in his own mind Then they avail not to
others as a means of REORGANIZATION If this
wonderful acquisition of experience" could not be
acquired in or outside of society it could not DO
acquired at all. Here we argue on the plane of
pure reason. VIII the thirty year-old anthropoo-
gist argue that because those, who are born dumb
and deaf, can, through signs exchange ideas, man
could also invent signs when the human race was
in its swaddling clothes and far beyond the con-
fines of civilization! Yes, if the dumb and deaf,
by their innate perceptions invented those signs,
otherwise no. If you say yes, we demand facts.
But facts those who want TO rule God out of the
unierse cannot produce, whilst facts to the con-
trary, namely that the signs in all deaf and dumb
institutions were invented for them by persons who
had oral language, are fully established Have not
the deaf and dumb children been taught in the
family circle signs by which they communicate
their wants and make known their thoughts! Who
invented these signs2 Those who were neither dumb
nor deaf Our modern we'll as ancient atheists
overlook these facts when striving to find some
foundation for their denial of God and his work OF
creation. That Adam created not as an in
FAINT but as an adult, able to speak, and with the
knowledge of his Creator has never been dlsproved
bv any of our rationalists atheists from whom
Mr. Brown draws his unverified and illogical con-
illusions, is fact to which honest and scholarly
men today attest when deplorng the decay Of re-
lgion. Did it ever occur to him that In order to
invent a language it required language? To in
vent language requires reflection, but one can not
reflect unless he has some language, which always
serves as a medium of reflection. Therefore, with
out language no new language could be invented,
Mr. Browns bare assertion that 1T is the acqulsl-
ton of experience to the contrary notwithstanding
which simply means that cit growed, like Iopsy.
Again. this yould-be scientist tells that "the
cradle of everything we have today was savagery"
IF that we're true mankind would still be III that
state for it is a well-llnown fact that no savage
tribe or race has ever by their inherent efforts
raised themselves to the civilized state. lhere is
no proof that the American Indian, though SUI
perior TO the New Holander, ever approached any
nearer TO civilization from the time he first lnhao-
tied this continent till its discovery by Columbus
After its discovery and the advent OF the jesuit ana
Franciscan missionaries we would refer Mr. brown
to the magic effect towards civilization as described
bv that profound and scholarly correspondent Us
valid Crawford, of this paper. Again, to upset the
modern anthropologist's theory we would refer nm
TO the investigation of Niehbur the celebrated Ger
man historian, philologst and critic who wrote that
in no instance known to man has savage tribe be-
come civilized by its own spontaneous efforts. An
other distinguished German historian and professor
of philosophy at Gottingen wrote that the savage
tribes who lived eastward of the Persian Gulf, along
the borders of the Indian ocean, and described by
the companions of Alexander, were in their habits
and customs no different from the description then
given Everywhere, when isolated, if not at
standstil they deteriorate unless they come IN 'o1
+oc+ w;tb civilization. Then, according to we'll
authenticated facts. if Everything Graded IN
sayagery" the human race would be yet in its
cradle. Learning and refinement do not constr
tute civilization When Mr.. Brown asserts that
everything was Graded in savagery' he must be lg-
norant of ancient history wilfuly distorts 1t TO