1. “The metaphor of the Beginning was the urge to speak.” Johann Gottfried Herder, Abhandlung über den Ursprung der Sprache (Berlin: Christian Friedrich Voß, 1772), 116; in Johann Gottfried Herder. Sämtliche Werke V, ed. Bernhard Suphan (Berlin, 1891; reprint Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1967), 74; for a translation, see On the Origin of Language (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, “Essay on the Origin of Languages”; Johann Gottfried Herder, “Essay on the Origin of Language”), tr. with afterword, by John H. Moran and Alexander Gode (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1966), 152.