6 Aug. 1814

Logic

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The reverse of this is the line of priority as chalked out by the hand of Nature. Sense is the fountain from which all ideas take their rise. To sense no objects but individual ones ever present themselves. The names first in use must accordingly have all of them been of the sort of names called proper names, names invented and employed for the designation of individual objects.

From the invention of proper names to the invention of common names must have been a very wide and ample step: long may the race have continued before[?] any instance of its being taken actually occurred.

As often as any separation to the eye had happened to take place, the first man desiring the presence of the first woman would have need to lift up his voice to give intimation to her of such his desire: the sound thus uttered by him would, if to any degree of constancy the same sound were repeated, become her name. In the same manner, from the first woman would the first man receive his name. In the same manner would the dog - the first dog between whom and any part of the human species any intercourse established itself - receive and at the same time learn his name.

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