EXPERIMENT WITH BABIES
At a scientific gathering in London it was stated that King James the Fourth of Scotland, a person of a rather inquiring turn of mind, conducted an experiment to ascertain what was the original language of tlio human raco. On an island in the Firth of Forth,'he uiaraoned two infants in the charge of a deaf-and-dumb nurse. Tlio result, an historian tells us, was: "Some say iliey speak very good Hebrew." Sir Walter Scott, commenting on tliß incident, rcjinarked that it was more likely that the children were screaming like their dumb nurse or bleating like tho goats land sheep!
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 94, 18 October 1934, Page 13
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103EXPERIMENT WITH BABIES Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 94, 18 October 1934, Page 13
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