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 chords of the instrument were irretrievably broken.”

What then were these “particular chords of the instrument,” and how do they relate words to mind? How is the mysterious link which has been discovered by the physician in the brain of man to be interpreted by the philosopher in the realm of thought? Until this interpretation is satisfactorily made, the mystery of words deepens.

To repeat! The structure of man’s brain and that of the anthropoid ape’s differ in no respect. The same anatomical features are present in both. Both have the convolutions in pairs. Each hemisphere, both in man and ape, duplicates the other. In man the speech-area is located in one hemisphere—in the ape, in neither. If speech depended solely on the anatomy of the brain, the highest tribe of apes should be as capable of speech as the lowest tribes of men. For the same reason the speech-area should be doubled; that is to say, it would be found in both