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CHAP. xir. 



The invention of Language and the formation of Ideas were folloisu- 

 ed by the difcovery of other Jieceffary Arts^ fuch as Number, Ag- 

 riculture, Clbaths, and Houfes. — Then the Liberal Arts^ fuch as 

 Mufic, Poetry, Ornaments of Drefs, and of Buildings. — Next 

 Sciences, Natural Philofophy, Morals, Logic, Metaphyfics, and 

 Theology. 



AFTER Language was thus invented and ideas formed, the 

 inventive genius of man, his love of knowledge, which is 

 eflential to an animal of intelligence, and the eafy communica- 

 tion he had with other men by the means of language, would 

 naturally produce many arts and fciences. One art I Ihall men- 

 tion, becaufe for carrying on the bufmefs of civil life it is almofl 

 as necefiary as language. The art I mean is that of Numbers^ 

 without which civil fociety could hardly fubfift. This art is not 

 of fo difficult invention as the art of language : For the differ- 

 ence betwixt one and multitude is perceived by the fcnfes; and I 

 have no doubt but the brute has that perception as well as we. 

 But to limit multitude, and in that way to fet bounds to it or 

 make it what the Greeks called TXriDcg ^a)^i(rf^-:ior, is tha work of 

 intelledk, and not fo eafy a work, as we, that are taught it and 

 have the conftant practice of it, may think. This is evident from 

 the fmall progrefs that many of the barbarous nations have made 

 in this art ; fome of them making the firft number, that is threej the 

 »»)ly boundary, after which they begin again, and fay three and one^ 



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