﻿EVIDENCE 
  OF 
  LANGUAGE. 
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  Next 
  comes 
  the 
  science 
  of 
  Language, 
  of 
  

  

  which 
  those 
  who 
  have 
  made 
  it 
  a 
  special 
  study 
  

  

  affirm, 
  that 
  it 
  affords 
  the 
  most 
  conclusive 
  

  

  evidence 
  of 
  all, 
  that 
  the 
  articulate 
  voice 
  of 
  

  

  Man 
  has 
  been 
  sounding 
  in 
  the 
  world 
  during 
  

  

  vast 
  though 
  indefinite 
  periods 
  of 
  time. 
  "The 
  

  

  evidence 
  of 
  language/' 
  says 
  Professor 
  Max 
  

  

  Muller, 
  " 
  is 
  irrefragable, 
  and 
  it 
  is 
  the 
  only 
  

  

  evidence 
  worth 
  listening 
  to 
  with 
  regard 
  to 
  

  

  ante-historical 
  periods. 
  ,, 
  * 
  And 
  what 
  does 
  this 
  

  

  evidence 
  go 
  to 
  prove 
  ? 
  Let 
  us 
  take 
  one 
  

  

  example. 
  "There 
  was 
  a 
  time," 
  says 
  the 
  same 
  

  

  author, 
  "when 
  the 
  ancestors 
  of 
  the 
  Celts, 
  the 
  

  

  Germans, 
  the 
  Slavonians, 
  the 
  Greeks, 
  and 
  

  

  Italians, 
  the 
  Persians 
  and 
  Hindus, 
  were 
  living 
  

  

  together 
  beneath 
  the 
  same 
  roof 
  — 
  separate 
  

  

  from 
  the 
  ancestors 
  of 
  the 
  Semitic 
  (Hebrew) 
  

  

  