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and reason, the tendencies which occasion the 

 inflexions and combinations of words, are all 

 necessary to the formation and use of language. 

 Are not these parts of the same scheme of which 

 the bodily faculties by which we are able to 

 speak are another part? Has man his mental 

 powers independently of the creator of his bodily 

 frame ? To what purpose then, or by what cause 

 was the curious and complex machinery of the 

 tongue, the glottis, the larynx produced ? These 

 are useful for speech, and full of contrivances 

 which suggest such a use as the end for which 

 those organs were constructed. But speech ap- 

 pears to have been no less contemplated in the 

 intellectual structure of man. The processes of 

 which we have spoken, generalization, abstrac- 

 tion, reasoning, have a close dependence on the 

 use of speech. These faculties are presupposed 

 in the formation of language, but they are de- 

 veloped and perfected by the use of language. 

 The mind of man then, with all its intellectual 

 endowments, is the work of the same artist by 

 whose hands his bodily frame was fashioned ; as 

 his bodily faculties again are evidently con- 

 structed by the maker of those elements on 

 which their action depends. The creator of the 

 atmosphere and of the material universe is the 

 creator of the human mind, and the author of 

 those wonderful powers of thinking, judging, in- 

 ferring, discovering, by which we are able to 



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