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Some, however, seem willing to think writing coeval with speech.

Thus Bicknell, from Martin's Physico-Grammatical Essay: "We are told by Moses, that Adam _gave names to every living creature_;[23] but how those names were written, or what sort of characters he made use of, is not known to us; nor indeed whether Adam ever made use of a written language at all; since we find no mention made of any in the sacred history."-- _Bicknell's Gram._, Part ii, p.5.A certain late writer on English grammar, with admirable flippancy, cuts this matter short, as follows,--satisfying himself with pronouncing all speech to be natural, and all writing artificial: "Of how many primary kinds is language?
It is of two kinds; natural or spoken, and artificial or written."-- _Oliver B.Peirce's Gram._, p.15.

"Natural language is, to a limited extent, (the representation of the passions,) common to brutes as well as man; but artificial language, being the work of invention, is peculiar to man."-- _Ib._, p.

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