Lectures on the Science of Language, Volume 2Longmans, Green, and Company, 1873 - Comparative linguistics |
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... nature and a flinthead a work of art . It is different in the Science of Language . There , the controversies about the great problems have not yet subsided . The questions whether language is a work of nature or a work of art , whether ...
... nature and a flinthead a work of art . It is different in the Science of Language . There , the controversies about the great problems have not yet subsided . The questions whether language is a work of nature or a work of art , whether ...
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... natural creation tends towards man : without man nature would be incomplete and purposeless . The Science of Man , therefore , or , as it is sometimes called , Anthropology , must form the crown of all the natural sciences . And if it ...
... natural creation tends towards man : without man nature would be incomplete and purposeless . The Science of Man , therefore , or , as it is sometimes called , Anthropology , must form the crown of all the natural sciences . And if it ...
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... natural science ; if that is the only view of natural science worthy of our age , then ethnological philology , once established on principles as clear as the physiological are , is the highest branch of that science for the advancement ...
... natural science ; if that is the only view of natural science worthy of our age , then ethnological philology , once established on principles as clear as the physiological are , is the highest branch of that science for the advancement ...
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... nature of speech and the origin of roots . We may accept it , I believe , as a general principle , that what is real in modern formations is possible in more ancient formations ; that what has been found to be true on a small scale may ...
... nature of speech and the origin of roots . We may accept it , I believe , as a general principle , that what is real in modern formations is possible in more ancient formations ; that what has been found to be true on a small scale may ...
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... nature of the case , it is impossible to supply . As well might the geologist look for fossils in granite ! The Turanian languages allow of no grammatical petrifactions like those on which the relationship of the Aryan and Semitic ...
... nature of the case , it is impossible to supply . As well might the geologist look for fossils in granite ! The Turanian languages allow of no grammatical petrifactions like those on which the relationship of the Aryan and Semitic ...
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