6/29 "The _names_ of sensible objects were, _in all languages_, the words most early introduced."-- _Rhet._, Lect. "The _names of sensible objects_," says Murray too, "were the words most early introduced."-- _Octavo Gram._, p.336.Bat what says the Bible? Revelation informs us that our first progenitor was not only endowed with the faculty of speech, but, as it would appear, actually incited by the Deity to exert that faculty in giving _names_ to the objects by which he was surrounded. |