The Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 38: November, 1890 to April, 1891 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from The Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 38: November, 1890 to April, 1891

But though this passage recognizes the general relation between feelings and those muscular contractions which cause sounds, it does so inadequately; since it ignores, on the one hand, those loudest sounds which accompany intense sensations - the shrieks and groans of bodily agony; while, on the other hand, it ignores those multitudinous sounds not produced under the excitement of love, rage, and jealousy, but which accompany ordinary amounts of feelings, various in their kinds. And it is because he does not bear in mind how large a proportion of vocal noises are caused by other excitements, that Mr. Darwin thinks a strong case can be made out, that the vocal organs were primarily used and perfected in relation to the propagation of the species (p.

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