Note 47:1 — Chapter II
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Probably a generation will pass away before it is appreciated; or it may soon pass into oblivion, to be rediscovered by some future thinker. All the newer histories agree in disapproving it, but chiefly on the authority of the philologers. Most of these are committed, both by tradition and by their own special researches, to the theory of a natural mixture of dialects at Smyrna, the border town of Æolic and Ionic settlements.