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these things ever have, or can be incident to Sense; but are
absurd speeches, taken upon credit (without any signification
at all,) from deceived Philosophers, and deceived, or deceiving
Schoole-men. [12]


CHAP. IV.

Of SPEECH.
T He Invention of Printing, though ingenious, compared
with the invention of Letters, is no great matter. But
who was the first that found the use of Letters, is not known. He that first brought them into
Greece, men say was Cadmus, the sonne of Agenor,
King of Phœnicia. A profitable Invention for continuing the
memory of time past, and the conjunction of mankind,
dispersed into so many, and distant regions of the Earth; and
with all difficult, as proceeding from a watchfull observation
of the divers motions of the Tongue, Palat, Lips, and other
organs of Speech; whereby to make as many differences of
characters, to remember them. But the most noble and
profitable invention of all other, was that of SPEECH,
consisting of Names or Appellations, and their Connexion;
whereby men register their Thoughts; recall them when they
are past; and also declare them one to another for mutuall
utility and conversation; without which, there had been
amongst men, neither Common-wealth, nor Society, nor
Contract, nor Peace, no more than amongst Lyons, Bears, and
Wolves. The first author of Speech was God himself, that
instructed Adam how to name such creatures as he presented
to his sight; For the Scripture goeth no further in this matter.
But this was sufficient to direct him to adde more names, as
the experience and use of the creatures should give him
occasion; and to joyn them in such manner by degrees, as
to make himself understood; and so by succession of time,
so much language might be gotten, as he had found use for;
though not so copious, as an Orator or Philosopher has need
of. For I do not find any thing in the Scripture, out of which,

Originall of
Speech.

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Publication Information: Book Title: Leviathan: Or, the Matter, Forme & Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiasticall and Civill. Contributors: Thomas Hobbes - author, A. R. Waller - editor. Publisher: Cambridge University Press. Place of Publication: Cambridge, England. Publication Year: 1904. Page Number: 13.
    
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