Quote#Speech
And for Incoherent Speech, it was amongst the Gentiles taken for one…
Quote byThomas Hobbes · 1588–1679
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Third Part, Chapter 36, p. 226 (See also: Glossolalia).
English (original)
And for Incoherent Speech, it was amongst the Gentiles taken for one sort of Prophecy, because the Prophets of their Oracles, intoxicated with a spirit, or vapor from the cave of the Pythian Oracle at Delphi, were for a time really mad, and spake like mad-men; of whoose loose words a sense might be made to fit any event, in such sort, as all bodies are said to be made of Materia prima.
— Thomas Hobbes
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