praeterea si non alii quoque vocibus usi inter se fuerant, unde insita notities est utilitatis et unde data est huic prima potestas, quid vellet facere ut sciret animoque videret? cogere item pluris unus victosque domare non poterat, rerum ut perdiscere nomina vellent; nec ratione docere ulla suadereque surdis, quid sit opus facto, facilest; neque enim paterentur nec ratione ulla sibi ferrent amplius auris vocis inauditos sonitus obtundere frustra.
Besides, if others had not also used these terms in their intercourse, whence was that foreknowledge of usefulness implanted in him, and whence did he first gain such power, as to know what he wanted to do and to see it in his minds eye? Compel them again he could not, one against many, nor could he master and conquer them, that they should wish to learn the names of things; nor is it easy to teach in any way or to persuade what is necessary to be done, when men are deaf; for they would not have suffered or endured in any way that he should go on dinning into their ears sounds of the voice which they had never heard, all to no purpose.
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