The Origin Of Languages And The Antiquity Of Speaking Man

Author : Horatio Hale
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780282395704
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (957 download)

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Download or read book The Origin of Languages and the Antiquity of Speaking Man written by Horatio Hale and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-18 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Origin of Languages and the Antiquity of Speaking Man: An Address Before the Section of Anthropology of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, at Buffalo, August, 1886 IN the study of every science there arise from time to time difficult questions or problems, which seem to bar the way of the student in one direction or another. It becomes apparent that on the proper solution of these problems the progress of the science mainly depends; and the minds of all inquirers are bent earnestly on the discovery of this solution. Such in biology are the questions of the origin of life and the genesis of species. Anthropology, and its auxiliary or component sciences of comparative philology, ethnol ogy, and archmology, have their share of these problems. Among them two of the most important are undoubtedly, in philology, the question of the origin of linguistic stocks, and in archaeology, the question of the epoch at which man acquired the faculty of speech. In the language of modern diplomacy, these would be styled burning questions, which must be settled before any hopeful progress can be made in other discussions. A brief consideration of these questions, in the light cast upon them by the most recent discoveries, may therefore be deemed to form an appropriate introduction to the work of our Section. Briefly defined, then, our inquiry on this occasion will have for its subjects, or rather its subject, for the two questions are closely connected, and form in reality but one problem, the origin of languages and the antiquity of speaking man. The question of the origin of languages must be distinguished from the different and larger question of the origin of language. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.