Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . their powerful bearing on that must have elapsed between thebeginning and the end of the distribu-tion of the human race, and the con-sequent remoteness of the date whichmust be assigned for the appearance ofman on the earth. Every part of the problem tends toestablish the same conclusion. Perhaps the most Striking attribute Division and de- of man is his faculty of ^anguTgTsVe-speech. Language is his. quire great
Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . their powerful bearing on that must have elapsed between thebeginning and the end of the distribu-tion of the human race, and the con-sequent remoteness of the date whichmust be assigned for the appearance ofman on the earth. Every part of the problem tends toestablish the same conclusion. Perhaps the most Striking attribute Division and de- of man is his faculty of ^anguTgTsVe-speech. Language is his. quire great as a science has risen, as abranch of anthropological study, to TIME OF THE BEGINNING.—ETHNOLOGICAL ARGUMENT. 125 explain and interpret the significance of ! among the varieties of human speech,linguistic phenomena. It is not ourpurpose in this connection to review the We desire to refer to the subject only incorroboration of the conclusions which IpOC QeCCAVJM \ oTiT\AYTAenA eeTCKviYMeiG Vn OTLU NIMUJNC Y NYA AETUJ N ^ ^^ ^ ^ ^ ^ uroifcTi Greek. Sanskrit. Egyptian Hieratic (eleventh dynasty). Egyptian Hieratic (Graeco-Roman Period). a JM in —^ AT. =1= nw- ^A_ IE IE - £ lil A A i^ •Ail DTKFERENTIATION OF LANGUAGES ILLUSTRATED IN ANCIENT STYLES OF WRITINGS. history of language, or to discuss thevarieties of form in which it has ap-peared, and the correlations existing have been already deduced from otherkinds of knowledge. Each ethnic branch of the human race 126 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. has its own form of language. Amongthe peoples who compose a given familyTimeacondition of mankind there is gen-of the creation eranv a common speech of dialects and ?> *- languages. with dialectical differences. These differences sometimes become sowell marked and firmly fixed as to con-stitute independent languages. Thisprocess of linguistic differentiation re-quires time as one of the conditions ofits accomplishment. As a rule, the rateof change, even in the alteratio
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