ition of Speech
177

CHAPTER XIX.

Language embraces Speech--Speech, Words, Grammar, and Rhetoric
183

CHAPTER XX.

Life and Consciousness--Consciousness and Emotion--Emotion and
Thought--Thought and Expression--Expression and Speech--The
Vocal Organs and Sound--Speech in City and Country--Music,
Passions, and Taste--Life and Reason
190

CHAPTER XXI.

Certain Marks which Characterise the Sounds of Monkeys as
Speech--Sounds Accompanied by Gestures--Certain Acts follow
certain Sounds--They acquire new Sounds--Their Speech addressed
to certain Individuals--Deliberation and Premeditation--They
remember and anticipate Results--Thought and Reason
200

CHAPTER XXII.

The Phonograph as an Aid to Science--Vowels the Basis of
Phonation--Consonants Developed from a Vowel Basis--Vowels are
Compound--The Analysis of Vowels by the Phonograph--Current
Theories of Sound--Augmentation of Sounds--Sound Waves and Sound
Units--Consonants among the Lower Races
208

CHAPTER XXIII.

The Human Voice--Human Bagpipe--Human Piccolo, Flute, and
Fife--The Voice as a Whistle--Music and Noise--Dr. Bell and his
"Visible Speech"
219

CHAPTER XXIV.

Some Curious Facts in Vocal Growth--Children and
Consonants--Single, Double, and Treble Consonants--Sounds of
Birds--Fishes and their Language--Insects and their Language
224

CHAPTER XXV.

Facts and Fancies of Speech--Language in the Vegetable
Kingdom--Language in the Mineral Kingdom
237

CHAPTER XXVI.

THE SPEECH AND REASON OF DOMESTIC ANIMALS.

Dash and the Baby--Two Collies talk--Eunice understands her
Mistress--Two Dogs and the Phonograph--A Canine Family--Cats and
Dogs--Insects--Signs and Sounds
246

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