302 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
whatever view we take t e bitpin of nati inane new om 
ever phic added to the sil ete of language, that all its changes have 
been changes of form, that no new root has ever been invented b later 
generations, as little as one single element has been added to the material 
world in which we live, and that in one sense, and in a very just sense, 
the air, and to every beast of the field, you will see that the science of 
pr has claims on your attention, such as few sciences can rival oF 
exce 
ceelhies to Mr. Miller every science has three marked stages; the 
empirical—the classificatory—and the theoretical. These three stages 
have suggested the principal division of Mr. Miller's book. The secund 
of these he divides again the genealogical and morphologel rela 
fication of languages. Under these latter heads he considers the nstit- 
uent elements of language, oe passes in review, so far as practicable in 
lectures of this nature, the different classes of roots which he divides nae 
the predicative and the demonstrative. Mr. Miller's remarks upon t the 
root Ar the source of the word Aryan, which he traces “in its wander- 
ings from language to language” (page 239, and post) afford an bene 
tion of his acumen. Our author examines also several of the 
pe three great families of languages—the Aryan, 
Turanie languages, and he has “added to his sone genealogical tables of 
th ree groups, dividing the latter into the northern std southern di- 
visions 9 the Turanic. In tliese tables the living and the dead languages 
are 
Mr. Male asserts the generally received view—that the whole frame- 
work of grammar had become s ee before the separation of the Aryan 
Peialby, and thus the broad outlines of grammar are the same in Sanskrit, 
in, and Gothic, and that i . is purely to phonetic compton < : 
must be attributed apparent differences. ence the history © f all 4 
Aryan lang isa p of d y. Mr. Miller’s familianty pane 
the science of language at its present stage of development ¢ entitle 5's 
views upon the “ common origin of language” to a brief eon 
be on 4 asad contends that the problem of the co 
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ster Mr. Miiller divides the problem of the origin of language ime 
formal and the material, and insists that the three distil 
sme the radical, the terminational, and the inflectional, se be recov” 
ciled with “the admissi the common ori rigin of human 
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