First Sentence

"THE results obtained from the examination of language in its several forms leaves no room for doubt, Max Muller tells us, that there was a stage, in the history of human speech, during which the abstract words in constant use among ourselves were utterly unknown, when men had formed no notions of virtue or prudence, of thought and intellect, of slavery or freedom, but spoke only of the man who was strong, who could point the way to others and choose one thing out of many, of the man who was not bound to any other, and able to do as he pleased."