The author of the “Descent of Man” thinks even the human voice is
prophetic of the ascent of man. Speaking of the “wonderful power,
range, flexibility, and sweetness of the musical sounds producible by
the human larynx,” he says:
The habits of savages give no indication of how this faculty
could have been developed. The singing of savages is a more or
less monotonous howling, and the females seldom sing at all.
It seems as if the organ had been prepared in anticipation of
the future progress of man, since it contains latent capacities
which are useless to him in his earlier condition.
(3413)
=Voice, The Mother’s=--See FATHER’S VOICE.
=Voting=--See BALLOT A DUTY.
=Vows=--See GRATITUDE.
=Voyage of Life=--See LIFE A VOYAGE.