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undefined principle caUed common se reference to a 
decisions of a sound practical understanding, 
St" which absolute certainty is not attainable. 
eX t™ l WoMZ"n btfetffZe\ e ri^d and elaborated 
^^S'thSas you ^ at e cnce 
taSgK.Porp.obfW a.* h. i««Ki 
^S'SgirqStiS then to be ^f^^^s^upS^ 
SS to’t“a “bW ™'g°a V ■»““*? *° «”*” 
miglit, he bro.ght ini J"S fe tLtio.lW NaWf »d 
gesticulation, implanted in J PO nstrained to use it. 
by nature he was prompted and even constr^ 
That is my first position. ^ W more a n invention 
a natural language, a languag , n than pi s out- 
of bis own, or the gradual fj& r0 w, pleasure 
ward manifestations of ' “ nature/are con- 
wjw., 
*TS„ ■» » loom. h. » SSSSS; 
dition of idiotcy) m possession of this natural g tte 
never learns it, he never n.eans'h inter- 
whole human family. degraded races of savages, and 
communication among the ™ os h § , societies of Europe,— m 
it is employed m the mos pol b ^ Ind i a ns, and in the 
the animated war-palavers ot th , But there is 
cultivated conversation of courts and palaces. 
