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 mut therefore make ue of Propoitions; we mut therefore peak to have general Ideas; for the Moment the Imagination tops, the Mind mut top too, if not aited by Speech. If therefore the firt Inventors could give no Names to any Ideas but thoe they had already, it follows that the firt Subtantives could never have been any thing more than proper Names.

But when by Means, which I cannot conceive, our new Grammarians began to extend their Ideas, and generalize their Words, the Ignorance of the Inventors mut have confined this Method to very narrow Bounds; and as they had at firt too much multiplied the Names of Individuals for want of being acquainted with the Ditinctions called Genus and Species, they afterwards made too few Genera and Species for want of having conidered Beings in all their Differences: to puh