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 The firt Language of Man, the mot univeral and mot energetic of all Languages, in hort, the only Language he had Occaion for, before there was a Neceity of peruading aembled Multitudes, was the Cry of Nature. As this Cry was never extorted but by a Kind of Intinct in the mot urgent Caes, to implore Aitance in great Danger, or Relief in great Sufferings, it was of little ue in the common Occurrences of Life, where more moderate Sentiments generally prevail. When the Ideas of Men began to extend and multiply, and a cloer Communication began to take place among them, they laboured to devie more numerous Signs, and a more extenive Language: they multiplied the Inflections of the Voice, and added to them Getures, which are, in their own Nature, more expreive, and whoe Meaning depends les on any prior Determination. They therefore expreed viible and moveable