270 ROMANCE LANGUAGES 



channels not directly open to the literary historian as such, this is 

 not the place nor is there now the time, to speak. It remains in 

 conclusion not because either the students of language or the 

 students of literature need to be reminded of it, but only to satisfy 

 the consuming sense of the fitness of things to signalize what has 

 been announced as the ruling idea of this entire Congress of Arts 

 and Science, namely, the ultimate unity of knowledge in all fields, 

 and especially, as corning home with peculiar force to the philologist, 

 the underlying unity that binds together in indissoluble significance 

 the phenomena of speech as the vehicle of human thought and of 

 literature as the embodiment of human speech. 



