Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . ly deduced from somecommon speech having a grammar and vo-cabulary of a determinate form. Out ofthe study of these six languages that oldgrammar and vocabulary can be rccon- DISTRIBUTION OF THE RACES.—THE BROWN DISPERSION. 507 structcd, and when reconstructed, theyare Latin. If Latin, then there was aLatin race that spoke it. If a Latin race,it had its seat and its institutions. Theseat of the race can be discovered geo-graphica
Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . ly deduced from somecommon speech having a grammar and vo-cabulary of a determinate form. Out ofthe study of these six languages that oldgrammar and vocabulary can be rccon- DISTRIBUTION OF THE RACES.—THE BROWN DISPERSION. 507 structcd, and when reconstructed, theyare Latin. If Latin, then there was aLatin race that spoke it. If a Latin race,it had its seat and its institutions. Theseat of the race can be discovered geo-graphically by tracing back the lines ofdeparture by which the six nations re-ferred to have reached their respectivecountries; and the institutions of Romecan be largely redeveloped by means of tions of a method which may be univer-sally pursued. Wherever two kindredtribes are found on the earth an ex-aminatiou of their language and oftheir geographical environment willlead, if carefully carried out, to a dis-covery of their common origin, or of thedivergence of the one from the this and analogous processes, strictlyscientific in their nature and peculiarly. LAND OF THE DRAVIDIANS.—C the etymological hints and inherent reve-lations of the descendent languages. In like manner we may group togeth-er Latin and Greek and Old High Ger-man, Celtic, Slavic, Persic, and Sanskrit,The whole Ar- and, by uicans of a :^:::i- comparison of these greated likewise. varieties of speech, canrevive the grammar and vocabulary ofthe primitive Aryan race lying, in all ofits activities, completely below the day-dawn of history. These are but illustra- interesting as methods for the increaseof human knowledge, the ethnic linesof the prehistoric nations may be tracedover continents and across seas until, bytheir conjunctions, convergencies, andparallelisms, we are able to determinewith approximate accurac)^ the earliestmovements of the human race. We will begin the examination of themi
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