Logos - word. Logic - word. Legis - word. Law - word. In the beginning, etc. Law, logic, and word. Same old same-o.
/sarcasm
We literally can't survive without words:
In the early 18th century, Frederick the Great of Prussia, stimulated by the interest in nature and the thinking of the French philosophes, set about to try to determine what was the "natural language" of humans--what language children would speak if none were imposed on them by adults. He issued a decree that babies born to widows and unmarried women who died in child birth be brought to a special nursery he established for his research and cautioned those who had contact with the infants en route not to speak to them or to talk within the hearing of the infants. His nursery provided the best physical care that could be provided given the knowledge of his time, but the caretakers were not allowed to speak to, sing to, or otherwise communicate to the babies any language. Despite their receiving the best physical care that could be provided, all of the babies died.