n half, in that he thought mind was a completely separate thing from the body. This created much leeway for the initial science of biology, since people figured that they could put the scalpel in the brain, because they were not united there anyway.
             Epicurus (a Greek philosopher living 300 BC) also addressed the origins of language. He was one of the first philosophers to say that language was not created by God, nor by man's intellect. He said it was created by nature and that it was a biological function just like vision or digestion.
             In the late 17th century Leibniz proclaimed language ability to be a gift of God, with its form of expression determined by natural instinct. Thus linguistics was left standing with one foot on the theological dock and the other in the naturalist boat. However, when at the end of the 18th century social sciences began to rise, this trouble was somewhat relieved. The problem
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