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tells us in any particular case how far grammatical elements, in accordanct 
with their primitive power, are able to express diflereat shadows of mein- 
ing in the spoken language of a people. 
On the advantage which philosophy or science in general derives frai 
coinparaciVe philology, 1 do not venture to add anything after what ™ 
so fully mul clearly explained yesterday by Chevalier Bimsen, lie »• 
preseniaiive of German science in this country. Laneuage must be coni' 
dereil, in its comiection with nature and with the human mind, as being 
natural expression of every natural impression, ns being the higher nnm 
and alwihue reality of objective nature and subjective mind. Laiifuv 
aunds m the system of the intellectual world as light stands m die iyw» 
of tlie physical world, comprising all, |>enetrating all, and revealing il 
1 here w more indeed to be read in human language itself than in aiiyiiiig 
that has been written in it. 
