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t 441 ) r. 354. Wilhelm von Humboldt, iiber die Verschiedenheit dea 

 menschlichen Sprachbaues, in his great work, Ueber die Kawi-Sprache au 

 der Insel Java, Bd. i. S. xxi. xlviii. and ccxiv. 



( 442 ) p. 355. The cheerless and since often repeated doctrine of inequality in 

 men's right to freedom, and of slavery as an institution in conformity with nature, 

 is found, alas ! very systematically developed in Aristotle's Politica, i. 3, 5, 6. 



f 443 ) p. 357. Wilhelm von Humboldt, iiber die Kawi-Sprache, Bd. iii. 

 S. 426. I here subjoin another extract from the same work, S. 427 : " The im- 

 petuous conquests of Alexander, the more politic and deliberate extension of 

 the Roman dominion, the savagely cruel wars of the Mexicans, and the 

 despotic territorial acquisitions of the Incas of Peru, have contributed in both 

 hemispheres to terminate the segregation of nations, and to form more exten- 

 sive societies. Men of great and powerful minds, as well as whole nations, 

 acted under the dominion of an idea, to which nevertheless, in its moral purity, 

 they were entire strangers. Christianity first made known its true signifi- 

 cancy and profound charity : and even from her voice it has obtained but a slow 

 and gradual reception. Until that voice had spoken, a few solitary accents 

 alone foreshadowed this great truth. In modern times an increased impulse 

 has been given to the idea of civilization ; and the desire of extending more 

 widely friendly relations between nations, as well as the benefits of intellectual 

 and moral culture, is increasingly felt. Even selfishness begins to perceive 

 that its interests are thus better served, than by forcibly maintaining a con- 

 strained and hostile isolation. Language, more than any other faculty, binds 

 mankind together. Diversities of idiom produce, indeed, to a certain extent, 

 separation between nations ; but the necessity of mutual understanding 

 occasions the acquirement of foreign languages, and reunites men without 

 destroying national peculiarity." 



