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possible to discover hardly any traces of 

 the primitive law of distribution. 



Whilst therefore the surviving idioms, 

 with the increase of the people that 

 spoke them, gradually divided themselves 

 into several branches (languages, dialects, 

 &c.), many of the primitive languages 

 which had arisen independently of each 

 other, gradually died out. This very pro- 

 cess — the decrease of the number of 

 languages — is going on speedily and in- 

 cessantly, even in our days, for instance 

 in America. Here, likewise, let us be 

 satisfied with the observation of the fact 

 and leave it to philosophy to search 

 for a clearer conception and explanation 

 from the essence of mankind. 



THE END. 



