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 this thing and that, may well enough explain in what manner Languages, already formed, are taught, but it does not hew us in what manner they are firt formed.

Let us uppoe this firt Difficulty conquered: Let us for a Moment conider ourelves at this Side of the immene Space, which mut have eparated the pure State of Nature from that in which Languages became neceary, and let us, after allowing uch Neceity (13) examine how Languages could begin to be etablihed: A new Difficulty this, till more tubborn than the preceding; for if Men tood in need of Speech to learn to think, they mut have tood in till greater need of the Art of thinking to invent that of peaking; and tho' we could conceive how the Sounds of the Voice came to be taken for the conventional Interpreters of our Ideas we hould not be the nearer