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the organism with which it is associated, and as little, that we have, 

 through Psychology, legitimate philosophical access to this fundamental 

 truth. My remarks have been directed against the suggestion, that we our- 

 selves, as self-conscious substances or agents, are the source of the physical 

 phenomena associated with the exercise of our thinking powers; and 

 against the doctrine which it is sought to found upon that suggestion ; and 

 I have purposely avoided, as far as possible, the collateral topics of contro- 

 versy which are opened by the paper under review. 



Art. XIX. — Pronouns mid other Barat Fossil Words compared toith Primeval 

 and Non- Aryan Languages of Hindostan and Borders. By J. Turnbull 

 Thomson, F.E.G.S., F.E.S.S.A., etc. 



[Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 23rd Auyust, 1879.] 

 The followmg comparisons may be taken as supplementary to my last 

 paper.* In that paper I confined myself principally to nouns expressive of 

 roots of the several dialects or languages. In this one I have scrutinized 

 the analogies of the pronouns, and some of the adverbs, also of a few 

 nouns and verbs, which had previously escaped my attention. I must here 

 again acknowledge my great obligations to the Hodgson lists, published by 

 Dr. W. W. Hunter, t 



My plan in this enquiry has been to bring the principal east and west 

 Barata tribes in juxtaposition, and then to compare their fossil ivords with 

 those of the old tribes of Hindostan and borders, as follows : — 



English. 



Malagasi. 



Malay. 



Samoan. 



Maoei. 



Hawaiian. 



I 



izaho 

 aho 



aku 

 ku 



o a'u 



au 

 ahau 



au 



■wau 

 owau 



Primeval and Non-Aryan Languages of Hindostan and Borders. 



Sunwar, go ; Thulungya, go ; Bahingya, go ; Dumi, ang-gnu; Vayu, go ; 

 Lepcha, go ; Mithan Naga, ku ; Abor Miri, ngo ; Sibsagar Miri, ngo ; Laos, 

 ku. 



* Eead before the Wellington Philosophical Society, and printed in Vol. XI., Trans. 

 N.Z. Inst., p. 157. 



t The works from which I have sought assistance in this paper are : — Comparative 

 Dictionary of the Languages of India and High Asia, by W. W. Hunter, B.A., etc. ; 

 Marsden's Malayan Dictionary ; Language and Literature of Madagascar, by Bev. Julius 

 Kessler ; Dictionary of New Zealand Language, by W. Williams, D.C.L. ; Samoan Dic- 

 tionary, by Eev. George Pratt ; Hawaiian Dictionary, by Lorrin Andrews. 



