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 my own Part, I am o cared at the Difficulties that multiply at every Step, and o convinced of the almot demontrated Impoibility of Languages owing their Birth and Etablihment to Means that were merely human, that I mut leave to whoever may pleae to take it up, the Tak of dicuing this difficult Problem, "Which was the mot neceary, Society already formed to invent Languages, or Languages already invented to form Society?"

But be the Cae of thee Origins ever o myterious, we may at leat infer from the little care which Nature has taken to bring Men together by mutual Wants, and make the ue of Speech eay to them, how little he has done towards making them ociable, and how little he has contributed to any thing which they themelves have done to become o. In fact, it is impoible to conceive,