Editorial note — Part II. ON CURTIUS’ CHRONOLOGY OF THE INDO-GERMANIC LANGUAGES. (continued 7)
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1. “The vast number of grammatical forms has had a stratified origin. As on the surface of the earth older and younger layers of stones are found one above the other, or one by the side of the other, We had similar appearances in language at any time of its existence.” Curtius, Zur Chronologie, p. 14.
2. See Academy, 19 June, 1875.
3. As it has been objected that I had no right to claim Dr. Whewell’s authority in support of my classification, I may here add a passage from a letter (Nov. 4, 1861) addressed to me by Dr. Whewell, in which he fully approves of my treating the Science of Language as one of the physical sciences. “You have more than once done me the honor, in your lectures, of referring to what I have written but it seems to me possible that you may not have remarked how completely I agree with you in classing the Science of Language among the physical sciences, as to its history and structure.”
4. Antikritik, Wie einer den Nagel auf den Kopf trifft: Berl. 1874.
5. Cf. Sachs’ Botany, p. 830.
6. See Lectures on the Science of Language, vol. ii.
7. Fiske, Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy, vol. i. p. 17.
8. See Kilian, Uber die Racenfrage der Semitischen und Arischen Sprachbände, 1874.