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aware of a certain difference between the old Egyptian and the Coptic foim 
and remarks on this latter point are very defim 
still more to account tor most of those differences. Itwa8Le^m?»«H« 
Letter to IlossoUini( 1837), pointed out the principle 
I have since endeavoured to give a complete survey of the CTaioinn 
forms and roots of the ancient Egyptian, in the grammaUcal and lew^ 
sition of the first book of my ‘ Egypt,’ and to establish that those 
are organic, and analogous to tin* gradual development of th ^ „ 
hieroglyphic writing. It was also Lepeius, who, in Ida niostacu . 
the Egyiilian Numerals,’ first showed the deepIy*rooled ^ u. 
the ancient roots of the language of Egypt bear on the one side to _ 
Germanic family, on tlm other to the Semitic. Ur* 
out more fully, by showing the undoubted aifinity between 
and those of the Indo-Gcrraanic family, Including the l 
which SchwartzeaUo had given occasional examples in , j. 
author has also insisted upon the affinity with the 
grammatical, ami especially the pronominal part, is decidedly p 
point which has been more particularly developed by Benfey. ,, 
The particular purpose of my studies in this field was to bnng , 
of these discoveries to bear on the univcrwil history ot maukin , » 
connexion of this history with the physiological affinity of the 
have hitherto taken the lead in the civilization of tlie world. ^ ^ 
elusions to which I arrived iu pursuing this course will be better u 
after I shall have prescnti'd to you, as 1 now proceed to do, “ , . yj. 
heads, the historical facts established by the critical schools o 
Germanists, the Semitics, and lastly, by the Egyptologists. ,;nn,hx« 
I. Eight, more or less cxtnnsivc, historical fomilios, or single 
been aacertained to constitute one great Asiatic-European 
even the remotest members speak original languages, more 
nected with each other than wiih any third tongue, ® .pti^ >r 
in the world. Wc shall call this stock here, for the present, tie Jap 
cording to a terminology which we shall iu tie sequel find reason 
considerably. ^ oNt 
The ^'rst great family of this stock are the Celts, once " ^ J 
Asia Minor (Galatia). Spain, France, Belgium, Helvrtia, 
Germany, and throughout the British Isles: it is still id 
which the Bus Breton is a corrupted form), the language ot 
in two cognate forms, the Gaelic and the Erse, the y{S.v 
Highlands of Scotland, and of the whole of Ireland. This fanu J 
aider as representing the most ancient formation of the whole stuc- ^ ^ 
The second family is tlm Thracian or Illyrian, once sp*"^ ^ 
Dnieper, the HelUspont, and in Asia Minor, in which 
lowed, and partly supplanted, by the Pelasgian, or ante-histonca , 
of the IlcHenic. The languages of the Epirots and Macedouuui»^^^y, 
this family : it is now represented by the Skipetariau, or the langi* 
Albanians or Arnauts. x'-toriefi*^ 
Ihe third U the /lrjn«?fiin7?, the language spoken during the 
in the country which, according to the most ancient traditions o ^ 
was the cradle of mankind, and again the primeval seat of ® 
deluge of Noah. . 
Iho fourth formation we venture to call the Asiatic ’ 
