CHAPTER I.
OF THE SCIENCE OF GRAMMAR.
"Haec de Grammatica quam brevissime potui: non ut omnia dicerem sectatus, (quod infinitum erat,) sed ut maxima necessaria."-- QUINTILIAN.

_De Inst.
Orat._, Lib.

i, Cap.

x.
1.

Language, in the proper sense of the term, is peculiar to man; so that, without a miraculous assumption of human powers, none but human beings can make words the vehicle of thought.