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 the Origin of arbitrary Signs, hews that he uppoes, what I doubt, namely a kind of Society already etablihed among the Inventors of Languages; I think it my Duty, at the ame time that I refer to his Reflections, to give my own, in order to expoe the ame Difficulties in a Light uitable to my Subject. The firt that offers is how Languages could become neceary; for as there was no Correpondence between Men, nor the leat Neceity for any, there is no conceiving the Neceity of this Invention, nor the Poibility of it, if it was not indipenible. I might ay, with many others, that Languages are the Fruit of the Dometic Intercoure between Fathers, Mothers, and Children: but this, beides its not anwering any Difficulties, would be committing the ame Fault with thoe, who reaoning on the State of Nature, transfer to it Ideas collected in Society, always conider Families as living together under one Roof,