THE SCIENCE OF LANGUAGE. 47 



the various idioms wliich. constitute tlie 

 German or Teutonic language have some- 

 times been spoken of as dialects. 



Darwin says* in his book : " Certainly 

 no clear line of demarcation has, as yet, 

 been drawn between species and sub- 

 species — that is, the forms which, in the 

 opinion of some naturalists, come very 

 near to, but do not quite arrive at, the 

 rank of species ; or, again, between sub- 

 species and well-marked varieties, or be- 

 tween lesser varieties and individual diffe- 

 rences. These differences blend into each 

 other in an insensible series ; and a series 

 impresses the mind with the idea of an 

 actual passage." Well, if for the terms 

 species, sub-species, variety, we substitute 

 the words language, dialect, patois, as 

 used by the glossologist, Darwin's state- 



* Page 60 of the fourth original edition, — T. 



