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ment holds perfectly good witli regard to 

 those divergences of speech in the bosom 

 of one family, of which we have already 

 illustrated the gradual process of develop- 

 ment. 



But how stands the fact with the 

 creation of the genera? that is to say, 

 in the glossologist's phraseology, with the 

 self-development of those mother-languages 

 which have given birth to the different 

 families of speech? Do we here observe 

 the same phenomenon as we did in the 

 offshoots of a family; do those parent 

 idioms again descend from a common stock, 

 and all these in the end from one single 

 primitive form of speech ? 



This question might be decided with 

 greater certainty if we had examined the 

 primitive form of a good many more 

 families of speech through their descendants 

 than we have done, but for the present 



