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more delightful, than the light of truth ; and Carey has given to mankind 

 a great body of truth, instinct with life and being, an organic whole 

 demonstrating those principles which govern the well-being, the happi- 

 ness and the civilization of the human race. The destruction of the 

 foundations of this system demand men of greater power than Eugen V. 

 Bohm-Bawerk and Alfred Marshall. They have not even made a lodg- 

 ment in the outworks. In the citadel all is calm and serene, without 

 apprehension of successful attack by such incompetent leaders leaders 

 who lack at once a knowledge of even the elementary principles of eco- 

 nomic truth, and the power to group and place in proper relation to each 

 other those things which. they do teach, if, indeed, their theories have any 

 connected relations one to another. If they have such relations, these 

 gentlemen have failed to show them. 



Vocabularies of the Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian Languages. 



By Dr. Franz Boas. . 

 (Read before the American Philosophical Society, October 2, 1S91.) 



The following vocabularies were collected by the author when studying 

 the Indian tribes of British Columbia, under an appointment of the Com- 

 mittee of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, ap- 

 pointed for the purpose of investigating and publishing reports on the 

 physical characters, languages, and industrial and social conditions of the 

 Northwestern tribes of the Dominion of Canada. It was decided that in 

 the report of the Committee a brief comparative vocabulary only should 

 be printed. As, however, the languages of the North Pacific Coast of 

 America are little known, the vocabularies may be found to possess some 

 v.-ilue. 



The following alphabet has been used : 



The vowels have their continental sounds, namely : a as in father ; e 

 like a in mate ; i as in machine ; o as in note ; u as in rule. In addition 

 the following have been used : a, o as in German ; a = aw in law; E = e 

 in flower. 



Among the consonants the following additional letters have been used : 

 g-, a very guttural g, similar to gr ; k', a very guttural k, similar to kr ; 

 q, the German ch in Bach ; H, the German ch in ich; Q, between q and H ; 

 c = sh in shore; Q th in thin; tl an explosive, dorso-apical I ; dl a 

 palatal, dorsal 1. ' following a consonant designates the u position of the 

 organs of articulation. 



