Archive image from page 574 of The cyclopædia of anatomy and. The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology cyclopdiaofana0402todd Year: 1849 VARIETIES OF MANKIND. 1359 Fig. 8-i7. Fig. 848. South American of the Puri tribe,— interior of Brazil. (After Rugendas.) globe in which so many dialects, or even dis- tinct languages, are spoken within such limited areas ; and thus, if difference in this respect be considered as a sufficient reason for denying the mutual affinity of the races, the number of separate stocks must be enor- mously multiplied. On the other hand, the mutual relationship just in
Archive image from page 574 of The cyclopædia of anatomy and. The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology cyclopdiaofana0402todd Year: 1849 VARIETIES OF MANKIND. 1359 Fig. 8-i7. Fig. 848. South American of the Puri tribe,— interior of Brazil. (After Rugendas.) globe in which so many dialects, or even dis- tinct languages, are spoken within such limited areas ; and thus, if difference in this respect be considered as a sufficient reason for denying the mutual affinity of the races, the number of separate stocks must be enor- mously multiplied. On the other hand, the mutual relationship just indicated, which con- sists more particularly in the very remarkable agglutination of words or portions of words, has been found in all the American languages which have been carefully examined, including some of the most important dialects spoken in parts of the continent very remote i'rom each other. And it is easily shown that this practice, carried on without any regular sys- tem, but according to the wants and caprices of each detached community, will, in the absence of such a literature as gives fixity to a language, almost necessarily induce such changes, that two offsets of the same stock, developing themselves under different circum- stances, shall cease in a few generations to be mutually intelligible. There are other causes, too, in the character of the people themselves, and in the mode in which they employ lan- guage, which tend to introduce such varia- tions. Their speech is, for the most part, rather an expression of their own ideas and emotions, than a reflex of external things, — much more subjective than objective ; and hence their names for the most familiar objects, or the simplest ideas, are long compound words or epithets, which are in striking contrast with the brief terms employed for the same pur- poses by most other nations. This feature in their phraseology seems common to all the American languages ; and it is strikingly indicative of a fundament
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