380 LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY CHAP. XIX 



this end in view held the Presidential Chair of the 

 Ethnological Society in 1869-70. It was mainly through 

 his influence that this older Ethnological Society was, a 

 year later, in 1871, amalgamated with a newer rival 

 society, the Anthropological, under the title of " The 

 Anthropological Institute." 



One of the leading points in the "Methods and 

 Results of Ethnology," repeatedly insisted on in 

 later years (see ii. 7, 250, and iii. 172) is the 

 rejection of the prevalent theory that community 

 of language implies community of race, Shleicher 

 indeed asserting that language is a more constant 

 character than cranial peculiarities. We talk of 

 Latin and Teutonic races, of Celtic and English, 

 dividing them in fact by their language, with no 

 more accuracy than if an archaeologist of the future 

 were to call the negroes of Hayti a European 

 stock because they spoke French. " Community 

 of language testifies to close contact between the 

 people who speak the language, but to nothing else." 



In this connection he writes to Prof. Max Miiller 

 on June 15, 1865 : 



MY DEAR SIR I heg your acceptance of the number 

 of the Fortnightly Review containing my article on 

 Ethnology, which accompanies this note. 



I lost no time, on Monday, in referring to 

 " Christianity and Mankind " ; and the perusal of your 

 chapter on Ethnology v. Phonology led me profoundly 

 to regret that I had not been able to avail myself of the 

 aid of so powerful an ally. 



But if you will continue to pull one way and I the 

 other, I have hopes we shall be able to get Ethnology and 



