, MAX MULLER S CONCLUSIONS. Ill 



must have been once a common under- 

 standing amongst men who dwelt together, as 

 to the meaning of that sound. And when 

 this common understanding is found to affect 

 the nearest relationships of life, and the 

 animals domesticated in primeval times, the 

 evidence of ancient consanguinity is complete. 

 In this case "the terms for God, for house, 

 for father, mother, son, daughter, for dog and 

 cow, for heart and tears, for axe and tree, 

 identical in all the Indo-Germanic words, are 

 like the watchwords of soldiers." But when 

 was it that the fathers of nations now so far 

 apart as Germans and Hindus were living 

 together under one roof.-' This is a question 

 which, in the terms of Time-absolute, no 

 man can answer. Only we know that before 



