NARJUT11 r ( \r, 



point which ever) r pays attention to. And as the 



rule may I*; 4 arbi mployed, it enables him to inv< rt the 



>le inanimate i reation with life, and thus to throw a charm 

 over the moat barren waste : an adTantage whicli is very freely 

 I to, in their oral tales and mythological fabl -. 

 In contemplating Buch q 1. . it is impossible to avoid the 



nation of man\ I and man\ d fects, But its beau- 



ties do not appear to be of a character to entitle them to the 

 enth ncomiums which have been 1 I upon some 



our Indian lanfl : nor do its defects and barbarisms 



merit the d pri dating I rms which have been applied to others. 

 Truth, in this, as in man)- other metaphisical investigations, will 

 be found to lie in a mean. If there are forms and noni 



suited to call forth the applause of the speculative philologist, 

 there are also many features for him to rectify or condemn. 

 Like the character of the people by whom it is spoken, its 

 principles arc perpetually verging to extremes, There is cither 

 dund&acy of forms creating distinctions, not. in all cas 



ious utility, or an absolute want of them. And the 

 inquirer led to wond who require the 



nice distinctions in th bould be able toil with 



ther in the other. 



. between barbarism and refinement, pov- 



and redundance, a method strictly philosophical <>r purely 



accidental, there might l> ;hat the people them- 



whom the language is spoken, were formerly in a 



more advanced and cultivated state. And that a language once 



cop >j le, de- 



I further into barbarism andconl 

 tribe after anoth itcd from the j >ck. Ch 



ace d alone prod itdiversity of c and Accidenl 



■foald L T i\e i nd that permutation 



which Wi tnquin bands 



OUld, in th inds, and the 



interchangeable i d hy 



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