...associating for mutual assistance, they came by degrees to use articulate sounds, mutually agreed upon, for arbitrary signs or marks of those ideas in the mind...speaker, which he wanted to communicate to the hearer. By what degrees they proceeded from inarticulate to articulate sounds, these writers do not attempt...

...Vitnnrius [lib. ii. cap. I. ] that the first men lived, for some time, in woods and caves, after UK manner of beasts, uttering only confused and indistinct...speaker, which he wanted to communicate to the hearer. Hence the diversity of languages ; for it is confe s-icJ 011 all hands, that speech is not innate....

...associating for mutual assistance, they came by degrees to use articulate sounds mutually agreed upon, as the arbitrary signs or marks of those ideas in the...wanted to communicate to the hearer. This opinion has been adopted by several modern writers of high rank, and is certainly in itself worthy of examination....

...embrace the opinion of Diodorus Siculus Qlib. ii.], and Vitruvius £lib. ii. cap. i.], that the first Men lived, for some time, in woods and caves, after the...speaker, which he wanted to communicate to the hearer. Hence the diversity of languages ; for it is confessed on all hands, that speech is not innate. This...

...by man. The first men, say they, lived for some time in woods and caves, after the manner of boasts, uttering only confused and indistinct noises, till,...other. This is what would take place, according to M. Renan, when the sons of the same parents, separating on the sides of the Imiius, became the double...

...by man. The first men, say they, lived for some time in woods and caves, after the manner of boasts, uttering only confused and indistinct noises, till,...the speaker which he wanted to communicate to the heaver. This opinion sprung from the atomic cosmogony which was that two sister tribes may have been...

...derivative origin."! *" Diodorus Siculus, Lucretius, Horace, and many other Greek and Roman writers, consider language as one of the arts invented by man....opinion sprung from the atomic cosmogony which was framed by Mochus, the Phoenician, and afterward improved by Democritus and Epicurus." — Pouchet's...

...came, by degrees, to use such as were articulate, for the arbitrary signs or marks, mutually agreed on, of those ideas in the mind of the speaker, which he wanted to communicate to others. Hence the diversity of languages; for it is agreed on all hands that speech is not innate.'...