EVIDENCE OF LANGUAGE. lOQ 



Next comes the science of Language, of 

 which those who have made it a special study- 

 affirm, that it affords the most conclusive 

 evidence of all, that the articulate voice of 

 Man has been sounding in the world during 

 vast though indefinite periods of time. **The 

 evidence of language," says Professor Max 

 Miiller, "is irrefragable, and it is the only- 

 evidence worth listening to with regard to 

 ante-historical periods." And what does this 

 evidence go to prove .? Let us take one 

 example. "There was a time," says the same 

 author, "when the ancestors of the Celts, the 

 Germans, the Slavonians, the Greeks, and 

 Italians, the Persians and Hindus, were living 

 together beneath the same roof — separate 

 from the ancestors of the Semitic (Hebrew) 



