. With the world's people : an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social evolution, and present conditions and promise of the principal families of men : together with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . inflections from acommon type, where-by the various raceshave expressed theirthought and indicatedtheir emotions. As wehave already said, onsuch a question as therelative roughness ofspeech, climate has hadnot a little to do. TheNorthern langt:agesare rough; the South-ern languages aresmooth ; the North-ern are guttural; theSout
. With the world's people : an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social evolution, and present conditions and promise of the principal families of men : together with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . inflections from acommon type, where-by the various raceshave expressed theirthought and indicatedtheir emotions. As wehave already said, onsuch a question as therelative roughness ofspeech, climate has hadnot a little to do. TheNorthern langt:agesare rough; the South-ern languages aresmooth ; the North-ern are guttural; theSouthern are vocalicand musical. Theseare the laws to which,however, there aremany limitations andrestrictions. Apart,however, from thosequalities which climateand environment areable to give or to in-tensify, there has beenin the European lan-guages, if we mistakegradation according to age—a gradationin what may be called elaborateness ofstructure and smoothness and musicalutterance. The old langfuagfes had a more elaborate structure than thoseM—Vol. 3—s wljich were dominant in the earlier cen-turies of our era; they, a more elaboratethan the tongues of the Middle Ages;they, than the dialects and languages ofmodern times. This variability in grammatical com-. not. ANCIENT SLAVIC SClLlTlU; liS AMI INm i IIDrawn by Puyplat, from a photograph. a regular i pleteness and in musical vocability maybe used as a standard to de-termine, not indeed exact-ly, but relatively, the era at races,which a given language was heard onthe tonsrues of men. Now the rough- Language may be an index ofpriority among 114 GREAT RACES OE MANKIXD. ness, jaggedness, and consonantal stiff-ness and guttural quality of the Slavicand Lithuanian languages, even as com-pared with German, much more as com-pared with Scandinavian, are so strikingqualities as to have led many to supposethe Slavic tongues to have been derivedfrom another radix totally different Middle High German, New HighGerman—we should find an
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