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humanity creates. As in the changed impress on the wax, 

 we read a change in the seal; so in the integrations of ad- 

 vancing Language, Science, and Art, we see reflected cer- 

 tain integrations of advancing human structure, individual 

 and social. A section must be devoted to each group. 



§ 112. Among uncivilized races, the many-syllabled 

 names used for not uncommon objects, as well as the descrip- 

 tive character of proper names, show us that the words used 

 for the less-familiar things are formed by compounding 

 the words used for the more-familiar things. This process 

 of composition is sometimes found in its incipient stage — a 

 stage in which the component words are temporarily united 

 to signify some un-named object, and, from lack of frequent 

 use, do not permanently cohere. But in the majority of 

 inferior languages, the process of " agglutination," as it 

 is called, has gone far enough to produce considerable sta- 

 bility in the compound words: there is a manifest integra- 

 tion. How small is the degree of this integration, how- 

 ever, when compared with that reached in well-developed 

 languages, is shown both by the great length of the com- 

 pound words used for things and acts of constant occurrence, 

 and by the separableness of their elements. Certain North- 

 American tongues illustrate this very well. In a Picaree 

 vocabulary extending to fifty names of common objects, 

 which in English are nearly all expressed by single sylla- 

 bles, there is not one monosyllabic word ; and in the nearly- 

 allied vocabulary of the Pawnees, the names for these same 

 common objects are monosyllabic in but two instances. 

 Things so familiar to these hunting tribes as dog and bow, 

 are, in the Pawnee language, ashahish and teeragish ; the 

 hand and the eyes are respectively iksheeree and keereekoo ; 

 for day the term is shakoorooeeshairet, and for devil it is 

 tsaheekshkakoorakvah / while the numerals are composed 

 of from two syllables up to five, and in Picaree up to 



seven. That the great length of these familiar 



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