A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Part I.
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The Origin of Languages
"What benefit would the species receive from all these metaphysical discoveries which could not be communicated but must perish with the individual who had made them? What progress could mankind make in the forests, scattered up and down among the other animals?" "Let us consider how many ideas we owe to the use of speech. Let us reflect on the immense pains and time that the first invention of language is must have required."
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