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Nothing could be more succinct about the power of words than John’s opening phrase of his gospel. The word reigned supreme at the creation and — for better or worse — has never lost its potency up to the present.
Descended from monkeys? My dear, let us hope that it is not true! But if it is true, let us hope that it not become widely known!
The wife of the bishop of Worcester, hearing of Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
In the Beginning was the Word.
St. John 1.1
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Schroeder, M.R. (2004). A Brief History of Speech. In: Computer Speech. Springer Series in Information Sciences, vol 35. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-06384-2_2
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