So that, even in the utterance of sounds, the inventive power of the mind is discerned; as the various elegant compositions, both in metre, and without metre, abundantly prove."-- _Ammon.

de Interpr._, p.

51.[21] 9.

Man was made for society; and from the first period of human existence the race were social.

Monkish seclusion is manifestly unnatural; and the wild independence of the savage, is properly denominated a state of nature, only in contradistinction to that state in which the arts are cultivated.
But to civilized life, or even to that which is in any degree social, language is absolutely necessary.