26 Universal Terms. — 4 
The intellect of man is accommodated to the world around him. — 
It is the external world which, by means of his senses, particularly — 
the sight, comes to be transferred, as it were, within, and to hav 
there an immaterial being; and it is, that we may read out, to our — 
fellow men what we thus perceive, mysteriously existing within, that a 
we have invented language. If things exist in the mind single, man 
invents words'to express them as such; if they are perceived togetli- 
er as constituting a sort or kind, then he invents a word expressi¥ 
of a class. | 
Mark on this subject the words of the inspired historian, who i 
nothing is more particular in the history of creation, than in the state- 
ment of the fact that God expressly intended the things which he 
made should be in sorts or kinds.“ And God said, Let the earth 
bring forth | Brass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding 
fruit itself upon the earth. And the 
earth brought forth grass, and herb yieldi ing seed after his kind, and 
the tree yielding fruit whose seed was in itself, after his kind. “An 
God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, 
which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and ev= — 
ery winged fowl after his kind. And God said, let the earth bring 
living creature after his kind, cattle and creeping ibe 
beast of the earth after his kind.” 
Man, in his works, has imitated his Maker, — his creations 
less are made each after its kind. ‘They are inventions to supply 
his necessities or minister to his pleasures, and being addressed wo 
a common nature, are ordinarily many of a sort. Such are the im= 
— of husbandry, of navigation, and of rural economy. 
"The names, then, that men have invented ‘to express the general 
conceptions of the mind, answering to the things which the Creator 
(and man in his puny works) sees good to make every one after his” 
kind, are no less early invented than those which express particu- 
jars. ‘This abundantly appears from the fact, that little 
the ease of familiar natural* classes of objects so small that the eye 
takes i in a number at once, learn the general before the particular ap- 
- Observe two children at a window, one of two years old, 
the othr of four 5 Tou will hear the younger exclaim, as these ob- 
x Chena that the w SB RI as “so used, refers not to the objeet, but fo the 
mind. Hence I would call chairs, tables, ae ships, natural classes, althoug! 
they are not natural objects, Nature did not e them, but natur e makes ev ery 
human mind recognize them as things of the same 
