256 DIFFERENT TRIBES OF MANKIND. SECT. XXVI. 



guages in question descended from the same stock ; but the pro- 

 bability of a common origin is much greater in the Indo-European 

 nations, whose languages, such as the Sanscrit, Greek, Latin, 

 German, &c., have an affinity both in structure and correspond- 

 ence of vocables. In many tongues not the smallest resemblance 

 can be traced ; length of time, however, may have obliterated 

 original identity ; but so many ages have passed before the sub- 

 ject became a study, and so many languages have worn out of 

 use, that it may be doubted whether any satisfactory result 

 will ever be arrived at with regard to the original speech of 

 mankind. 



