nec fuit ante videre oculorum lumina nata, nec dictis orare prius quam lingua creatast, sed potius longe linguae praecessit origo sermonem, multoque creatae sunt prius aures quam sonus est auditus, et omnia denique mem- bra ante fuere, ut opinor, eorum quam foret usus; haud igitur potuere utendi crescere causa.
There was no sight before the eyes with their light were born, no speaking of words before the tongue was made; but rather the origin of the tongue came long before speech, and the ear was made long before sound was heard, in a word all the members, as I think, existed before their use; they could not then have grown up for the sake of use.
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