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By the tongue we reveal our knowledge, 

 thoughts, and sentiments, and thus, in some 

 degree, fix and multiply them. B y the 

 hand we render valuable information per- 

 manent, and raise a common capital of 

 knowledge, from which all may draw an 

 equal share of interest. There are some 

 who represent the intellectual faculties of 

 man to be little superior to those of brutes, 

 and maintain that they become so chiefly 

 in consequence of his possessing organs of 

 speech, and that surprising instrument the 

 hand. They, however, exhibit a very dif- 

 ferent view of human nature from that on 

 which I am now commenting, which shows, 

 on the contrary, that these organs are but 

 the means by which the superior intel- 



the nervous fibres, together with the sympathetic affec- 

 tions of remote parts, excited by similar actions, must, 

 I think, on consideration, appear to every one a subject 

 of great interest and curiosity. 



