The Origin of language )
We contend that language was
neither an immediate gift from
God, nor the invention of man."
But was the spontaneous
result of man's organization."
That it was not an immediate
gift from God, conveyed in
the nineteenth and twentieth
verses of the second chapter
of Genesis clearly prove."(Where
God brought the beast of the
field before Adam to see what
he would call them." It was
left entirely optional with
Adam, what mane should be
given to each, and from the
analogy that the names of the
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