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ANTIENT METAPHYSICS. Book IL 



BOOK II. 



Of the Invention of Arts and Sciences^ 



CHAP. I. 



7 he fubjeSi of this book is the invention of Arts and Sciences^ begin- 

 ning ixjith the Art of Language.-^ Language not natural to Man, 

 but an Jrt. — Men herded, and carried on fome com7)ion bufinefs be^ 

 fore they Spoke. — Language began "with animal cries, varied per- 

 haps by fome articulation, in imitation of certain Birds ; — varied 

 alfo by Mufical Tones. — By fuch a Language no progrefs could 

 have been made in Arts and Sciences. — The Chinefe Language not 

 jit for Arts or Sciences : — Thefe, therefore, among them all, put into 

 hieroglyphical "writing even their laxu bufinefs. — A Language of 

 Art necejfary for the invention of Arts and Sciences. — This the 

 mojl difficult of all Arts. — Proof of this:—Y\r'^ as to articulation, 

 — This performed by the organs of the mouth operating varioujly. 

 — Thefirfl organ of fpeech that appears to have been chiefly ufed, is 

 the throat. — By this guttural founds are produced, fuch as the 

 Orang Outang vfes, the Wild Girl that ivas feen in France, and 

 the Huron in North America. — Articulate founds divided into 

 vowels and confonajits. — The nature of thefe explained. — The 

 voivels feiv in nunibsr, the confoncv.:: maity. — The confonants much 



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