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and keeping many cows, employed their daughters to 

 milk, and so the one word was employed in both mean- 

 ings. 



But there are some words in each language entirely 

 distinct and peculiar to it. We see the reason of this. 

 When the first parent race emigrated from central Asia 

 and swept on westward, branches turned off in various 

 directions, one to the south, another to the southwest, 

 others to the southeast and southwest of Europe, etc. 

 Branches flowing to the north formed the great Celtic, 

 Slavic and Teutonic races. 



When these tribes separated from the parent stock they 

 must have taken with them the civilization which they 

 had before separating. So the several branches or vari- 

 eties carried with them the same words for common things 

 which they all had when together, such as the word for 

 "House," showing that they lived in houses before migra- 

 ting from their ancient homes. Thus too we find that there 

 are similar words in all these great linguistic streams for 

 ox, horse, sow, mouse, wheat, clothes, the numerals one, 

 two, three; also for plough, hatchet, hammer, gold, sil- 

 ver, copper, tin. But when we find the names of the 

 same thing differing in all these tribal languages, we may 

 be confident that the original race knew nothing of it, 

 and did not use it. Such words as that for sail, or that 

 for boats, propelled by other means than simple oars, are 

 not found common to all ; hence they did not have sails 

 or sail boats when together. 



The result of such unexpected new discoveries in so 

 old a science is finally to bring us to the conclusion that 

 there is no end to knowledge. The discovery of some 

 new instrument or method of investigation will open to 

 us means of increasing our knowledge. In our time the 

 wonderful discovery of the meaning of the lines in the 



