Twelve Lectures on the Connexion between Science and Revealed Religion
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LECTURE THE FIRST; ON THE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF LANGUAGES. PART I.
ON THE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF LANGUAGES. PART I.
GENERAL INTRODUCTION. — Relation of these Lectures to the Christian Evidences. — Method to be therein followed. — Results to be anticipated.
ETHNOGRAPHY, or comparative study of languages. — HISTORY — First period: Search after the primary language; defects in the object and methods.— Second period: Collection of materials; lists of words, and series of Our Fathers. — Third period: Attempts at arrangement and classification; Leibnitz, Hervas, Catherine II., and Pallas, Adelung and Vater. — Dangerous appearance of the study at this period, from the apparent multiplication of independent languages. — RESULTS — First: Formation of families, or large groups of languages in close affinity, by words and grammatical forms. — Exemplification in the Indo-European, Semitic, and Malayan families. — Second: Progressive reduction of supposed independent languages into connection with the great families; Ossete, Armenian, Celtic. — Review of Sir W. Betham’s System; Dr. Prichard^ Recapitulation; Concluding Remarks.
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