18 BARWINI8M TESTED BY 



to form tlie basis of a natural system con- 

 cerning the imique genus homo ? Is not the 

 history of the formation and progress of 

 speech the main aspect of that of the deve- 

 lopment of mankind ? Thus much is certain, 

 that a knowledge of linguistic relationship 

 is absolutely requisite for anybody who 

 wishes to obtain sound notions about the 

 nature and being of man. 



It is m}'^ earnest desire that the natural 

 history method should find more and more 

 favour with those who investigate the 

 subject of language in general. In this 

 respect the following lines might induce a 

 young glossologist* to take a leaf out of 



* I am the first, as far as I know, to use this modern 

 Germanism, or Jenaism, for the scientific, philosophical inves- 

 tigator of language; but a name had to he coined or adapted 

 for the man of science, who is neither to he compared with 

 the linguist nor to he confused with the philologer. The 

 heart-rending complaints about innovation, about foreignisms 

 — genus and species — will invariably be found to arise from 



