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assumed a different character in different 

 parts of its domain, until at last it branched 

 off into a couple of languages, or possibly into 

 more than two, of which two only survived; 

 the same applies to all ulterior ramification 

 and division. Both these languages again 

 submitted repeatedly to the process of 

 ramification. The one branch or offshoot 

 which, on account of its ulterior career, we 

 will call the Slavonic. Teutonic divided in 

 its turn through gradual re-ramification — 

 Darwin's continual tendency to divergency 

 of character — into Teutonic and Slavo-Lettic; 

 of these the former became the mother of 

 all the Germanic languages and dialects, 

 whereas the latter gave rise to the Sla- 

 vonic and Lithuanian (Baltic, Lettic) 

 tongues. The other language which, by 

 the process of ramification had developed 

 itself out of the Indo-Grermanic primitive 

 form, the Ario - Graeco - Italo - Keltic — 



