Transactions Of The Historic Society Of Lancashire And Cheshire For The Year 22 1869 1870

Author : Historic Society Of Cheshire
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230005089
Total Pages : 104 pages
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Download or read book Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire for the Year written by Historic Society Of Cheshire and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt: ...been justly observed, it may be properly called a "discovery), which was found to bear such a striking resem"blance both in its more important words and in its gram"matical forms to the Latin and Greek, the Teutonic and "the Sclavonic languages, as to lead to the conclusion that "all must have been derived from a common source." An able writer in the Saturday Review truly describes the science of comparative philology as "the great discovery of "modern scholarship, the discovery which, more than any "other, unites distant ages and countries in one tie of brother"hood." Hence its great value to antiquarian students of every class. Further investigation has fully demonstrated the truth of the views thus expressed. Not only is the affinity of the languages admitted without dispute, but the consanguinity of the peoples, and the identity of many of their popular traditions and superstitions have been demonstrated with scientific precision, by such writers as the Brothers Grimm, Dr. Kuhn, Dr. Roth, Max Miiller, Farrar, Dasent, and others who have devoted special attention to the subject. This common ancestry is sometimes styled Indo-European; but the phrase being open to objection, as including more than the precise facts justify, the term Aryan, or Arian, is now generally preferred. Some writers regard the Aryans as descendants of Japhet, and the Semitic tribes as the progeny of Shem. In the latter they include the Hebrews, the Phoenicians, the Arabs, and the Ethiopians, and their languages are radically distinct from those of the Aryan family. The country about the Upper Oxus river, now mainly included in the dominions of the Khan of Bokhara, i3 generally agreed upon as the locality...