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CHAP. XV. 



Reafons for the Author infifimg Co mucli upon the difficulty of the invention of the Arr 

 of Language. — One reafon is, that it tends to prove, that Language mutt have been 

 invented in Egypt, where fo many other arts were m vented. — Proved, iw9, That 

 Xifiguag^"¥as invented by the Egyptians, by the progrefs they made in other arts 

 °and in fciences, which could not have been without Language. — 2iJ/y, Articulation 

 Courd not have been i.nvented without the alEuance of thole Disemon Kings, whom 

 the Egyptians had. — 3/;5, We are iure that the Egyptians made the firrt itep in the 

 invention of au art of Language, by analyiing it into its elemental Tounds. — They did 

 not flop at that analyfis, but liiiewife analyfed the words into the parts of fpeech. — 

 But thefe words at firft monofyllabical. — In this Itate Language went to China, where 

 it remains unimproved, in its original ftate, — Hieroglyphics went there alfo.; — and 

 there they ai-eftill preferved. — In Egj'pt the art was perfected by the invention of 

 the Alphabet, and of a PoUyfyllabical Language, formed by Derivation, Com^poii- 

 tion, and Fle(5tion. — ^This compleated the Grammatical Art, and the Art of Lan- 

 guage. — The Phcen;cians the only people that can contend with the Egyptians for 

 tne mvention of Language. — Sundry reaibns given why they were not the inventors 



- of it. — i/w. Their Genius did not lead them that way, being wholly employed ia 

 Trade, and ftudious oaly of Gain. — 2d/y, They had no Polity fit for the invention 

 or cultivation of arts. — 3/w, They lived, in antient times, m the neighbourhood- of 

 the Egyptians, and fo may be luppofed to have got Language and other arts from 

 them. — 4/a, They had their Religion from Egypt. — This proved by fundry fads. — 

 The Egyptians, therefore, the mventors, and the only inventors of Language. — 

 How Language and other arts were tranfmitted from Egypt to other Counuies, is 

 an important part of the Hiitory of Mam — This to be treated of in the following 

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BOOK III. 



_iv;!f)f the Tranfmiflion of Arts and Sciences from Egypt to other 



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Egypt fo fituated as to be fit for communicating its Arts to many countries of the Earth. 

 —It communicated by laotl -with Africa and Alia. — In Africa their Arts do not ap- 

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