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nature_n	humane_a	soul_n	union_n	2,404	5	9.1201	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35856	Didascalocophus, or, The deaf and dumb mans tutor to which is added a discourse of the nature and number of double consonants, both which tracts being the first (for what the author knows) that have been published upon either of the subjects / by Geo. Dalgarno.	Dalgarno, George, 1626?-1687.	1680 (1680)	Wing D129; ESTC R11949	52,273	143

DIDASCALOCOPHUS Or The Deaf and Dumb mans Tutor To which is added A Discourse of the Nature and number of Double Consonants Both which Tracts being the first for what the Author knows that have been published upon either of the Subjects By GEO. DALGARNO Printed at the THEATER in OXFORD Anno Dom. 1680. Imprimatur TIMO HALTON Vice-Cancel Oxon. Errata Read Didascalocophus for Cheiralogy p. 96. l. 7. and p. 104. l. 22. Read use for use p. 27. l. 1. Read most for least p. 128. l. 8. THE INTRODUCTION With a KEY to the following discourse ABOUT 20 years agoe I published Latiali but rudi Minerva a Synopsis of a Philosophical Grammar and Lexicon thereby shewing a way to remedy the difficulties and absurdities which all languages are clogg'd with ever since the confusion or rather since the fall by cutting off all Redundancy rectifying all Anomoly taking away all Ambiguity and Aequivocation contracting the Primitives to a few number and even those not to be of a meer arbitrary but a rational Institution enlarging the bounds of derivation and Composition for the cause both of Copia and Emphasis In a word designing not only to remedie the confusion of Languages by giving a much more easie medium of communication then any yet known but also to cure even Philosophy it self of the disease of Sophisms and Logomachies as also to provide her with more wieldy and mannageable Instruments of operation for defining dividing demonstrating c. What entertainment this design may meet with in following ages I am not solicitous to know but that it has met with so little in this present age I could give several good reasons which at present I forbear intending if God bless one with life health and leisure to do this in a more proper place To me 't is enough to have the Testimony of some of the learned men of this present age * Dr. Seth Wind now Lord Bishop of Sarum Dr. John Wilkins late Lord Bishop of Chester Dr. John Wallis Dr. William Dittingham who are best able to judge in things of this nature that I have there discovered a secret of Art which by the learned men of former ages has been reckoned among the Desiderate of Learning To which I may add that this discovery is made from more rational easy and practicable principles than ever they imagined to be possible To this treatise I gave the title of Ars Signorum which in compliance with the Dialect of the present Scene I may properly enough change to Sematology This soon after became a fruitful Mother of two Sister-Germans Didascalocophus and a Discourse of double Consonants which having lyen as twins in the womb for many years at last two severe fits of sickness did midwive them into the world the latter here in order being Senior to the other by the space of full 7 years That the argument I have in hand is worthy to be treated of will readily be confessed by all but how worthily I have handled it must be judged by a few to whose candor passing by all apologies I freely submit The former treatise of Sematology had the Universality of all mankind for its object but had nothing to recommend it but conveniency This of Didascalocophus is restrained at least in its most proper ends and principal effects to a small number of mankind but comes recommended with the strongest arguments of Charity and Necessity But at present I will dismiss the Mother and betake my self to put the Daughter in a proper dress for the following Scene of action The Soul of Man in this state of union depending in its operations upon the bodily Organs when these are vitiated it must needs follow that the Soul it self is so far affected as at least to be hindred in her external functions Being therefore to treat of a way to cure a weakness that follows humane nature equally affecting both I will leave it to the skilful Physician to discourse of the causes and cure of the Disease as it concerns the Body and will apply my self to consider of the means to cure the better part of the Man which is the proper work of a Grammarian And because the subject I have in hand is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and more particularly one branch of it which for what I know has been hitherto ex professo treated of by no Author I will first mention all the several wayes of Interpretation whereby the Soul either doth or may exert her powers In doing of which I will be obliged to take the liberty of coyning some new words of Art which hereafter I will explain It is true that all the Senses are Intelligencers to the Soul less or more for tho they have their distinct limits and proper Objects assigned them by nature yet she is able to use their service even in the most abstracted Notions and Arbitrary institution But with this difference that Nature seems to have fitted two Hearing and Seeing more particularly for her service And other two Tasting and Smelling more gross and material for her dull and heavy consort the Body whereas the fifth of Touching is of a midle nature and in a manner equally fitted for the service of both as will appear in the progress of the following discourse Wherefore being here to speak of the Interpretation of arbitrary Signs imprest by the Rational Soule and by it alone upon the Objects of the Senses most fitted for that use I will take notice of the most usual or at least of the most easy and practicable wayes of Interpretation which either are or may be Here reflecting upon Aristotles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I expected both his help and Authority in Analysing the several kinds of Interpretation But finding little or nothing to this purpose in him neither indeed in any other Author of old or new Philosophy as wee now distinguish that I have happened to look in I was forced to adventure upon the following Analysis for clearing my way and enabling me to discourse the more distinctly on the Subject Argument Interpretation then in its largest sense is an act of cognitive power expressing the inward motions by outward and sensible Signs Of this there are three kindes 1. Supernatural 2. Natural 3. Artificial or Institutional to which I give the names of Chrematology Physiology and Sematology Chrematology is when Almighty God reveals his will by extraordinary means as dreams visions apparitions c. and this in the division of Arts falls under Divinity Physiology is when the internal passions are expressed by such external Signs as have a natural connexion by way of cause and effect with the passion they discover as laughing weeping frowning c. And this way of Interpretation being common to the Brute with Man belongs to Natural Philosophy And because this goes not far enough to serve the Rational Soul therefore Man has invented Sematology that is an Art of impressing the conceits