34 DARWINISM TESTED BY 



the one wliich Darwin attempted for the 

 species of animals and plants. Nobody doubts 

 or denies any longer that the whole Indo- 

 germanic* family of speech — Indie, Iranic, 

 (old Armenian, Persic, &c.,) Hellenic, Italic, 

 (Latin, Oscan, Umbrian, with the daughters 

 of the former,t) Keltic, Slavonic, Lithu- 

 anian, Teutonic or German, that all 

 these languages, consisting of numerous 

 species, races and varieties, have taken their 

 origin from one single primitive form 

 of the Indo-Germanic family ; the same re- 

 mark holds good with regard to the lan- 

 guages of the Semitic family, which is well 



* I would have taken the liberty of substituting our more 

 usual appellation of Avian, especially because I have already 

 referred the naturalist to Dr. Mueller's tables, but for the 

 author's own way of using the word ; an inconsistent termi- 

 nology is the cause of much misunderstanding. — T. 



t That is to say, modern French, Italian, Spanish and Por- 

 tuguese, Provenpal as now spoken in some parts of the South 

 of France, and Wallachian, forming the group of Eomance or 

 neo-Latin languages. 



