The Importance of Language

In the primitive state, as there were neither houses nor cabins nor any kind of property, everyone took up his lodgings at random and seldom continued above one night in the same place. Males and females united without any premeditated design as chance occasion or desire brought them together. They soon came to such a pass of forgetfulness as not even to know each other when they happened to meet again. I must further observe that the child having all his wants to explain and consequently more things to say to his mother than the mother can have to say to him, it is he that must be at the chief expensive invention. This makes his the number of languages equal to that of the individuals