>64 ANTIENT METAPHYSICS. Book II. 



CHAP. XIV. 



Of the diffuiihy of the irroention of Language. — The forming of Ideas, 

 ftecejfarily previous to the invention of Language ; as there can be 

 no Language y "which has only names for individual things. — Of the 

 difference betwixt Particular and General Ldeas. — Abflra£l and 

 General Lleas not the fame. — Of the material part of Language, 

 Articulation; — of ivonderful dificult invention. — Nature has fur- 

 jiifhed the materials, with which other arts work ; but we have 

 created the materials of Language. — Wonderful, that we fjould have 

 learned to articulate by any praElice. — Speaking the mofl wonderful 

 thing among Men. — As Men fpeak by imitation, they muf have 

 been taught to fpeak. — This could not be done by Alen fuch as -we, 

 — but they muf have had fupernatural affflancc, and been taught 

 by Dcemons. — A Language of Art could not have been formed with- 

 out Men having made fame progrefs in other Arts and Sciences. — 

 This could not be without fome kind of Language being ufed before 

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

 mrfl wonderful part of the Art. — There mufl be words in a Lan- 

 guage of Art, to exprefs every thing in the World of Nature and 

 the World of Art, Lmmaterial things as well as Material. — Each 

 Individual thing impcffible to be expreffcd,—only the fpeciefes of them 

 can be expreJfed.^Thefe fo many, that they could not be all expreffed 

 by words unconneBed with one another.— But they are conncSed 



■ together by the three great Arts of Language, Derivation, Compo- 



fition, and Fle&ion. — Of thefe three, the greaief Art is Fledloii. — 



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



perfeSl is joined the pkafuit Art of Mufc, confif.ing of Melody 



and 



