Synthesized answer
The provided passages do not offer details about the evidence the author provides in the "Treatise on the Origin of Language (1772)". The passages identify the work and its author, Johann Gottfried Herder, and state the first part of the treatise asks whether human beings, using their natural abilities, could invent language [Passage 1]. However, they do not describe the evidence presented to answer this question.
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From the book
Title: Herder: Philosophical Writings by Johann Gottfried Herder Description: Publisher Description Categories: Philosophy Pages: 488 Snippet: Johann <b>Gottfried Herder</b> Michael N. Forster. <b>Treatise on the Origin of Language</b> ( <b>1772</b> ) Vocabula sunt notae rerum.1 Cicero First part : Were human beings , left to their natural abilities , able to invent language for themselves ? 2 ...