COSMIC PHILOSOPHY 



which we may call the South Aryan and North 

 Aryan. Following the progress of the South 

 Aryan, we find it diverging on the one hand 

 into Indo-Iranian, and on the other hand into 

 the parental form of the Hellenic, Italic, and 

 Keltic languages. Neglecting the other branches, 

 and following only the Italic, we find the di- 

 vergent forms of this exemplified in Umbrian, 

 Oscan, and Latin ; and again, following the 

 career only of the latter branch, we arrive at 

 French and its kindred Romanic dialects. On 

 the other hand, as we follow the North Aryan 

 line, we find it first dividing into Teutonic and 

 Slavo-Lettish. Neglecting the latter, we observe 

 the Teutonic again diverging into Gothic, Old 

 Norse, and Old German. Following only the 

 last of these, we may observe it bifurcating into 

 High and Low German, from the latter of which 

 is derived the English which we speak. 



Now if we take a general survey of this 

 family-tree, we find that kindred words in lan- 

 guages down near the trunk resemble each 

 other closely, while kindred words in languages 

 high up on the twigs have often well-nigh lost 

 all traces of their primitive family likeness. To 

 be sure we can still recognize the English 

 daughter in the Sanskrit duhitr, but such strong 

 resemblances are not usual, and it is only too 

 easy to look at a page of Sanskrit without realiz- 

 ing its kinship with English. But to show how 

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