The infant learns to speak in its mother's lap

"what can one imagine more contrary to all the known facts than this primitive state dreamed up by philosophy [(e.g. Rousseau)], in which a troop of human orangutans, weary of devouring one another, improvise finally society, language, intelligence; animal creators who invent humankind?"

     Philippe Gerbet, Considerations sur le dogme générateur de la piété catholique, 5th ed. (Paris:  Librairie de Piété et d’Éducation d’Auguste Vaton, Éditeur, 1853 [1829]), 9, as quoted in François Laplanche, "La notion de«science catholique»:  ses origins audébut du XIXe siècle," Revue d’histoire de l’Église de France 74, no. 192(1988):  75 (63-90), translation mine.