348 MAN : PAST AND PRESENT. [CHAP. IX. 



sides of the Atlantic and in the Austral lands. From this point 

 of view the ethnologist may unreservedly accept Ehrenreich's 

 trenchant remark that "the nation stands and falls with its 

 speech 1 ." 



1 "Das Volk steht und fallt mit der Sprache" (Urbewohner Brasiliens, 

 1897, p. 14). 



