Chapters On Language (1865) - Hardcover

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When, more than four years ago, I published my book on the OiT gin of Language, it was, I believe, the only book distinctly devoted to that subject which had appeared in England since the end of the last century. Since that time Philology has been daily gaining ground as a study of infinite importance, and I believe that the stimulus it has received has been mainly due to the eloquence and genius of Professor Max Miiller, whose first series of Lectures was published in 1861. The views however which it was the object of my Essay to explain and illustrate, although they were propounded by philologists of the most unquestioned eminence, have found in Professor Miiller a strong opponent, and therefore have met in England with but few converts and fewer supporters. Nevertheless after constant study, and the most candid consideration of the objections xu-ged against them, I believe that those views, in spite of the vehement assaults directed against them, remain absolutely unshaken.
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