this thing and that, may well enough explain in what manner Languages, already formed, are taught, but it does not ſhew us in what manner they are firſt formed.
Let us ſuppoſe this firſt Difficulty conquered: Let us for a Moment conſider ourſelves at this Side of the immenſe Space, which muſt have ſeparated the pure State of Nature from that in which Languages became neceſſary, and let us, after allowing ſuch Neceſſity (13) examine how Languages could begin to be eſtabliſhed: A new Difficulty this, ſtill more ſtubborn than the preceding; for if Men ſtood in need of Speech to learn to think, they muſt have ſtood in ſtill greater need of the Art of thinking to invent that of ſpeaking; and tho' we could conceive how the Sounds of the Voice came to be taken for the conventional Interpreters of our Ideas we ſhould not be the nearer know-
