i, p.4.

"Plato attributes the primitive words of the _first language_ to a divine origin;" and Dr.Wilson remarks, "The transition from silence to speech, implies an effort of the understanding too great for man."-- _Essay on Gram._, p.

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Dr.Beattie says, "Mankind must have spoken in all ages, the young constantly learning to speak by imitating those who were older; and, if so, our first parents must have received this art, as well as some others, by inspiration."-- _Moral Science_, p.27.Horne Tooke says, "I imagine that it is, _in some measure_, with the vehicle of our thoughts, as with the vehicles for our bodies.

Necessity produced both."-- _Diversions of Purley_, Vol.

i, p.20.