From this, it may be laid down as a broad principle, that no individual can make great advances in intellectual improvement, beyond the bounds of a ready-formed language, as the necessary means of his progress."-- _Ib._, p.9.These positions might easily be offset by contrary speculations of minds of equal rank; but I submit them to the reader, with the single suggestion, that the author is not remarkable for that sobriety of judgement which gives weight to opinions.
6.

We have seen, among the citations in a former chapter, that Sanctius says, "Names are the signs, and as it were _the instruments, of things_." But what he meant by "_instrumenta rerum_" is not very apparent.

Dr.Adam says, "The principles of grammar may be traced from the progress of the mind in the acquisition of language.

Children first express their feelings by motions and gestures of the body, by cries and tears.

_This is_[31] the language of nature, and therefore universal.