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or of any other art. The firft flep, in the progrcflTion of man 

 towards the civil li.e, was the herding Rate, fu^;h as that in which 

 the Orang (Jutangs live, of whom 1 faw two. The next ftep of this 

 progrtflion the favage Girl had m, de, for (lie came from a people liv- 

 ing in what may be called the very (irfl: ftate of civil lociety, and 

 had learned, as I have (aid, to fjeak a language the molt rude and 

 imperfedt that can be imagined, and which i hold to have been the 

 firll beginning of the art *. 



Having thus (hown the beginning of language, I will here fay- 

 very little of its progrefs. 1 will only oblcrve, tdat as the founds of 

 the words of the firft language muft have been very fiinple, and ap- 

 proaching very near to animal cries, from which, as I have laid, all 

 1; nguage was derived, fo the words mCrft have been very few in 

 number. But as fociety advanced, the wants of men would increafe, 

 and confequently more names for th-ngs would be neceffary ; and 

 thcfe, in procefs of time, would multiply fo much, that it would 

 be neceffary to connedl them together both by found and fenfe, fo 

 tha' they might be comprehended in the memory. This was done, 

 as I have faidt. by the three g>eat arts of language, derivation, com- 

 polition, and fledion. 



Having thus connefted things together by what is called the Ana- 

 logy of language, they would conclude the art by Syntax, without 

 which, as I have faid J, every other thing in the grammatical art 

 would be of no ufe; for fuppofe the words expreffed every thing in 

 the cleareft manner, with all the qualities, circumftances, and ac- 

 cidents of things, yet it they were not put together in a certain way, 



which 



f See whnt I have faid of thefe three ftates of man in his progrefs to civility, arts 

 and fciei cts, n Vol. IV. Book I. Ciiap. II. 



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