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but must also have assimilated many.* It is only now that the 

 civilisation of the In do- European tribes, after astruggloof more than 

 four thousand years, — certainly far more, but how much we cannot 

 vet conceiva-r-U giving decided token of being destined entirely to 

 displace the barbaric civilisation, and thus acquire a dominion as 

 universal as the latter had obtained at the dawn of the former. 

 The latter still prevails over considerable regions, and what is 

 remarkable, it is most persistent in that in wbioh it appears to hrtve 

 been earliest developed, and which is nearest the great seat of the 

 highest activity and advancement of the former. 



The reader will bear in mind that I do not allege that all the 

 harmonic languages were the result of one development in one 

 family, A priori, or rather if we looked at the nature of language 

 alone, we should expect that the passage from the monosyllabic, 

 being a natural one, took place independently wherever the tones 

 decayed. Again, although every early language ini'st be strongly 

 intonated, Utere is no proof that all were monosyllabic to the extent 

 wh ich Chinese is. it is the tendency of the mass of human races 

 not to change their ideologic habits, but to remain fixed in their 

 intellectual condition, that renders ii possible that there may have 

 been fewer independent linguistic developments than we should 

 otherwise "have thought probable. I do not here give any opinion 

 as to the number of sources of the harmonic languages. This 

 subject we sliall soon examine when comparing their ideologies. 

 All that I desire at present is that the reader will recognise the 

 importance for our ethnic researches of these two facte, 1st, that 

 the great majority of human tribes of the lower developments tend 

 to remain entirely bound down by habit and unsusceptible of 

 internal ideologic change (a glossarial change is inevitable every 

 wln-re,) and, '2<Llhal when an iileologio change does take place in a 

 tribe or rather fanrilv, it marks a fresh intellectual energy and 

 inventiveness, depending probably on on improved organism, 

 or at all events becoming permanent through the latter, however 

 first stimulated', and this very vigour in which it originated, 

 tends to extend the power and influence of die tribe and of 

 the language. ^ milst rot DfJ overlooked that, in the course of 

 thousands of years, as a tribe extends and generates numerous 

 distinct tribes, placed in different ethnic and geographic circum- 

 stances, the same general linguistic structure may come to characterise 

 nations in very differenJ stages of civilisation and presenting great 

 physical and intellectual contrasts; just as we find amongst ft 

 people of the highest mental and linguistic development numerous 

 individuals with low organisms, ana stupid, savage minds, who, if 



* Dr Frkhard concludes {torn linguistic data that the Iranian mother-race bad 

 mrtdr uitir adrarvft: in an*, end *ujipo>va thai i( nearly on a Ji-vc! la itiok' 

 rapeou with lac nomadic Tartarian' race, although iu» mental ctilturr was moch 

 greater. 



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