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 their own accord; and as they carce had any other Method of not loing each other, than that of remaining contantly in each other's Sight, they oon came to uch a pas of Forgetfulnes, as not even to know each other, when they happened to meet again. I mut further oberve, that the Child having all his Wants to explain, and conequently more things to ay to his Mother, than the Mother can have to ay to him, it is he that mut be at the chief Expence of Invention, and the Language he makes ue of mut be in a great meaure his own Work; this makes the Number of Languages equal to that of the Individuals who are to peak them; and this Multiplicity of Languages is further increaed by their roving and vagabond kind of Life, which allows no Idiom time enough to acquire any Conitency; for to ay that the Mother would have dictated to the Child the Words he mut employ to ak her