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... comparative philologists have been encouraged to prove the impossibility of a
common origin of languages and races , in order to justify , by scientific
arguments , the unhallowed theory of slavery . Never do I remember to have seen
science ...
... comparative philologists have been encouraged to prove the impossibility of a
common origin of languages and races , in order to justify , by scientific
arguments , the unhallowed theory of slavery . Never do I remember to have seen
science ...
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Yet every system , however insufficient it may prove hereafter , is a step in
advance . If the mind of man is once impressed with the conviction that there must
be order and law everywhere , it never rests again until all that seems irregular
has ...
Yet every system , however insufficient it may prove hereafter , is a step in
advance . If the mind of man is once impressed with the conviction that there must
be order and law everywhere , it never rests again until all that seems irregular
has ...
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It has been said that this so - called philosophy of nature has never achieved
anything ; that it has done nothing but prove that things must be exactly as they
had been found to be by the observer and collector . Physical science , however
...
It has been said that this so - called philosophy of nature has never achieved
anything ; that it has done nothing but prove that things must be exactly as they
had been found to be by the observer and collector . Physical science , however
...
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It will not be difficult to show that , although the science of language owes much
to the classical scholar , and though in return it has proved of great use to him ,
yet comparative philology has really nothing whatever in common 7 with
philology ...
It will not be difficult to show that , although the science of language owes much
to the classical scholar , and though in return it has proved of great use to him ,
yet comparative philology has really nothing whatever in common 7 with
philology ...
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... it was invented by man as a means of communicating his thoughts , when mere
looks and gestures proved inefficient ; and it was gradually , by the combined
efforts of succeeding generations , brought to that perfection which we admire in
...
... it was invented by man as a means of communicating his thoughts , when mere
looks and gestures proved inefficient ; and it was gradually , by the combined
efforts of succeeding generations , brought to that perfection which we admire in
...
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| Title | Lectures on the Science of Language Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain ...1861 [and 1863], Volume 1 Lectures on the Science of Language Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain ...1861 [and 1863], Friedrich Max Müller |
| Author | Friedrich Max Müller |
| Publisher | C. Scribner, 1866 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 12 Nov 2009 |
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