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ately, there lies another region equally important though 



not equally accessible by one and the same approach. It is 



also interesting to see that both roads have met in that 



common region to which I referred above, and in which 



language forms the central and dominating feature. The 



same spirit which lives in the philosophical systems of 



the great idealistic movement in Germany, and which 



went hand in hand with the revival of German literature, 



lived also in the minds of the founders of that great 



movement to which we owe the sciences of philology, 



comparative and classical, of jurisprudence, of biblical 



theology, of history in its many branches. Many of 



these were indeed pupils of Kant or his successors, 



and notably the last and greatest exponent of this line 



of thought, Hegel, can count among his followers a 



great array of names of the leaders in the various 



branches of historical research. On the other side, the 



school which calls itself pre - eminently scientific, and 



which is represented in Germany and France by the 



psycho-physical, in England by the evolutionist schools 



of thought, has found it not only necessary to study 



16. the phenomena of mind in their physical and physio- 

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 to the social logical foundations, but also to attack and explore that 



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view. region in which the human mind has become, as it were, 



an external and tangible thing, viz., human society 

 with its primitive or more advanced institutions. It is 

 needless to say that here again langviage presents itself 

 as the central creation. In and through it — in the 

 spoken and still more in the written word, — as also 

 through the creations of the fine and useful arts and of 

 music, external material and lifeless things have become 



