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every other.— At firft, the ideas were diredtly reprcfcnted, by figures natural or fym- 

 bolical.— Thel'e laft were what is called Hieroglyphics.— Of the affiftrince given to 

 our mtellea by our fenfes, and how wonderfully the two concur to carry on man in 

 the purfuit of knowledge.— The advantages of the writing art.— This art invented in 

 Egypt by a Daemon, called Theuth.— But he invented only the notation of the ele- 

 mental founds by written charaders.— The analyfis of language, into elemental 

 founds, was before his time, under the Dsemou Kmgs. Page 2C4 



CHAP. XIV. 



Of the difficulty of the Invention of Language.— The forming of ideas, neceflarily pre- 

 vious to the invention of Language ; as there can be no Language, wnich has only 

 names for individual things.— Of the difference betwixt Particular and General Ideas: 

 — Abftraft and General Ideas not the fame. — Of the material part of Lanouage, Ar- 

 ticulation ; — of wonderful difficult invention. — Nature has furniihed the materials 

 with which other arts work; but we have created the materials of Language Won- 

 derful, that we fliould have learned to articulate by any praflice.— Speaking the moll 

 •wonderful thing among Men. — As JMen fpeak by imitation, they muft have been 

 taught to fpeak. — ^This could not be done by Men fuch as we, — but they muft have 

 had fupernatural affiftance, and been taught by Da.>mons. — A Language of Art could 

 not have been formed without Men having made fome progrefs in other Arts and 

 Sdences. — This could not be without fome kind of Language being ufed before a 

 Language of Art was formed. — The formal part of Language, a moft wonderful part 

 of the Art. — ^There muft be words in a Language of Art, to exprefs every thing in 

 the World of Nature and the World of Art, Immaterial thmgs as well as Material. 

 — Each individual thing impoffible to be exprefled, — only the fpecies of them can be 

 expreffed. — Thefe lb many, that they could not be all expreffed by words unconnefted 

 with one anotlier. — But they are coimected together by the three great Arts of Lan- 

 guage, Derivation, Compolltion, and Fleclion. — Of thefe three, the greateft Art is 

 Fleclion. — An example of the Art of it in the Verb. — To a Language that is perfect 

 is joined the pleafant Art of Mufic, conflfting of Melody and Rhythm. This com- 

 mon to feveral of the Antient Languages, and to fome Modern Languages. Of the 



difference betwixt the Mufic of the Chinefe Language and that of the Greek The 



one is Chanting or Singing ; the other of a line Melodious flow, fuitable to Lan- 

 guage, and quite different from common IMufic— Language thus iliown to be a 

 moft beautifiil as well as ufeful Art, and of the greateft extent, variety, and, at the 

 fame time, regularity. „_ 264 



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