The Impossibility of Language

Grammarians must have had more knowledge and experience than we can allow them. How, for example, could they have thought of or understood the words matter, spirit, substance, mode, figure, motion? I beg my judges to suspend their lecture a little in order to consider what a great way language has still to go with physical substantives alone. Which was the most necessary, society already formed to invent languages, or languages already invented to form society? But be the case of these origins ever so mysterious we may at least infer from the little care which nature has taken to bring men together by mutual wants.