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pology in Paris, reviewed the address of 1886 at length, in the peri- 

 odical UHomme for September of that year, and, while dissent- 

 ing from some of its physiological suggestions recommended the 

 philological conclusion very strongly to the attention of scholars. 

 Prof. Sayce, in his presidential address of 1887 to the Section of 

 Anthropology in the British Association, spoke in equally com- 

 mendatory terms, merely asking for some additional evidence, 

 which the author of the theory endeavored to supply in his 

 Canadian Institute paper already referred to. Prof. G. J. 

 Romanes, in his Mental Evolution of Man, quotes largely from 

 Mr. Hale's address to the extent of nearly a fourth part of the 

 whole essay accepting the author's conclusions and fortifying 

 them by other evidence. Prof. Henry Drummond, in his recent 

 work, The Ascent of Man, takes a similar view. Lastly, Dr. 

 Brinton, in his important work on Races and Peoples (which he 

 dedicates to Mr. Hale), has given his opinion on the subject in 

 clear and decided terms. " Those convolutions of the brain " (he 

 writes) " which preside over speech being once developed, man 

 did not have to repeat his long and toilsome task of acquiring 

 linguistic faculty. Children are always originating new words 

 and expressions, and if two or three infants are left together, 

 they will soon have a tongue of their own, unlike anything they 

 hear around them. Numerous examples of this character have 

 been collected by Mr. Hale, and upon them he has based an 

 entirely satisfactory theory of the source of that multiplicity of 

 language which we find in various parts of the globe." 



In 1889 Mr. Hale was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of 

 Canada. To their translations he contributed, in 1891, a paper 

 entitled Language as a Test of Mental Capacity. This essay was 

 also separately reprinted, with the additional title of An Attempt 

 to demonstrate the Tone Basis of Anthropology, and attracted 

 hardly less attention from ethnologists than his address of 1886. 

 It received from the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain 

 and Ireland the unusual compliment of being republished in full 

 in their quarterly journal despite its length of thirty- six quarto 

 pages. It was also reprinted in four sections in successive num- 

 bers of The American Antiquarian for the following year, under 

 the title of Man and Language. A review of this paper in Nature 

 (June 30, 1892) anonymous, but bearing clear evidence of the 

 style of Prof. Max Miiller speaks of Mr. Hale as " the Nestor of 

 American philologists, and, at the same time, the Ulysses of com- 

 parative philology in that country," and of his paper as "an 

 important essay." The eminent reviewer adds : " All his contri- 

 butions to American ethnology and philology have been distin- 

 guished by their originality, accuracy, and trustworthiness. 

 Every one of them makes a substantial addition to our knowl- 



