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be known by the very sound itself to mean expulsion from the inside 

 outward. And so of many other words. But the range of this in- 

 vestigation has been hitherto kept narrow by the neglect of the other 

 direction in which these studies should move on. No one has yet se- 

 riously taken up the true characteristics of natural language, such as 

 the clucks of Oregon and CafTraria, the final K of the hypoborean 

 race, the infantine TL of Mexico and other local regions, the softly 

 vocalized finals of Southern Europe, the utter abandonment of the 

 Polynesian race to vowelism, the monosyllabic humour of the Sinitic 

 stock, to study these in the same spirit with which Gardner and Nut- 

 tall studied the sounds of birds; to study them, in fact, in connection 

 and in harmony with other specific differences of men not as men, 

 but as animals. Yet until this is done, comparative philology has 

 obtained no starting point. 



The second department of philology is that of pure Bardic or My- 

 thologic words — words which are to be studied as inventions and not 

 as imiohmfary organizations ; to be regarded truly as fossils, scat- 

 tered, fragmentary, inverted, pseudo morphed ; and, when understood, 

 instructing us far more likely about migrations of mind than of body; 

 rather about the exodus of priesthoods and sects than of races; about 

 a picturesque, mysterious propaganda of symbols by priests and their 

 initiated, and not about the carriage of household sounds, war cries, 

 or love whispers, from one locality or habitation to another, by men 

 still half animals. 



And the third department of philological investigation deals with 

 these same empirical constructions, these originally crystallized bard- 

 isms, not in their first forms, but in their secondary or sedimentary 

 condition, as words broken down, pulverized, readjusted and cement- 

 ed ; as words with some of their elements abstracted and with new 

 elements infiltrated; tinged by climate and social habits, and meta- 

 morphosed by the logic, art and science of successive generations. 

 To use a geological simile, there are many primary regions of phi- 

 lology like Bretagne and Western Ireland, Northern Spain, Dalmatia 

 and the Caucasus, Ceylon, New Holland, or any other remote and 

 secluded lnnds,wheretheelementary sounds of the ancient wordmakers 

 still present themselves for comparison and analysis almost in their 

 original phases. On the other hand most of the languages of the 

 world and all the languages of the historic, artistic and scientific 

 nations are of a genuine secondary order and need to be studied first 

 as to their grosser ingredients, and these again secondly in a finer 

 analysis. And one object of the charts presented here is to show in 



