muſt therefore make uſe of Propoſitions; we muſt therefore ſpeak to have general Ideas; for the Moment the Imagination ſtops, the Mind muſt ſtop too, if not aſſiſted by Speech. If therefore the firſt Inventors could give no Names to any Ideas but thoſe they had already, it follows that the firſt Subſtantives could never have been any thing more than proper Names.
But when by Means, which I cannot conceive, our new Grammarians began to extend their Ideas, and generalize their Words, the Ignorance of the Inventors muſt have confined this Method to very narrow Bounds; and as they had at firſt too much multiplied the Names of Individuals for want of being acquainted with the Diſtinctions called Genus and Species, they afterwards made too few Genera and Species for want of having conſidered Beings in all their Differences: to puſh
