CONTENTS. 



Language ncceflary for the inftitution of Civil Society ;— therefore n^iift havg been 

 in the Herding State, though very imperfect. — The firft Language confined to the 

 expreffion of our Senfations and Defires ; — afterwards it was extended to exprels 

 names for things. — Progrefs in this matter, i/?. Of Particular names to form Gcnc- 

 xal : — 2dly, To conncft words by Derivation, Compofltion, and Flection ; — and, 

 /-T/?/;., By Syntax. Page 159 



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iProgrefs of Men from the Invention of Language to Ideas, firfi: Particular, then Gene- 

 rah — Ignorance of Mr Locke in this matter. — All our Ideas arife from our Senfa- 

 tions. — Diftinftions to be made for knowing accurately the nature of them, but 

 which Mr Locke has not made. — Confufion of his Lans;uage on the lubieft of Ideas 

 of Senfation : — What thefe truly ztq.— Ideas of Reflecllon not fufficiently explained by 

 him. Page 167 



CHAP. XII. 



The Invention of Language and the formation of Ideas were followed by the difcovery 

 of other neceffary Arts, fuch as Number, Agriculinre, Cloathsy arid Houfes. —Then 

 the Liberal Arts, fuch as Mufic, Poetry\ Ortiameuti of Drefs, and of Buildings. — 

 Next Sciences, Natural Pkilofephy, Morals, Logic, Meiaphyfcs, and Theology. 



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t the Parent Country of all Arts and Sciences. — There Geometry invented, and 



Government and Religion eftablifhed. — ^The knowledge of one Supr-jme Being #f 



the Fall of Man — and of a Future State of Rewards and Pnnilhments, kno«-n 

 there. — The Egyptians had a Philofophic Religion as well as a Popular.— TUc 

 Myftery of the Trinity known to them — and learned there by Plaro, as well as 

 his Doctrine of Ideas. — ^The Learning pf the Egyptians now to be learned onlv' 

 from Greek Authors who imported it into their own country fuch as Plato and 

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