New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-10-20
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DIR. kRAITzER's LECTURE. krah-
GERS Introductory lecture on Language, delivered on
Wednesday night at the Spinger Institute, was lis
tened to with the utmost attention BY a highly re-
sree,able audience.
His two principal propositions were, hrSt the ma
teral world makes impressions the mind. and these
impressions become ideas, which are expressedo by
the organs of speech The second is in the form of
a question how language Observation-Disclosures II
was inherent IN man OF given to him after ne mad
existed, for sometime without It
Language he SAID is divided into three parts-hrst,
Lexcal. which relates only to words IND, Granl'
matica relating to construction, and thirdly, eupho-
NOUS, embracing rythm, melody and tone
There was period when language was ante
historical when men spoke before they wrote, or
built and this brings MS back TO the NEUROLOGICAL
age the age of fable and legend-an age OF when
we have no rehc that best and most ndestructi.
BILE one its language. The use that can be maze oil
that has been shown by their BOOKS
Having noticed the difficulty presented to foreign
learners by certain letters of the English alphabet,
the Doctor says
NAV be asked what do they mean, and the an
swer is simply, they mean what they mean. Inc
greatest truths are the simplest and they require no
demonstIatIOn-they appeal TO common sehse-they
are c0mprehended intultiyely-they are theif own
hest mteIpreters the natural original roots, before
having been arbitrarily misappiled SIGNIFY JUST WHAT
the organs speech by which they are uttered sig
nifty IN the harmony Of the qualities oil lhngs 70 oe
designated OF their conceptions In our MIND ana OF
the eeometrlcal physical and physiological quail
ties and relations of the respective organs mus,
long the same with nguG tongue lick, INK dne, Jog,
hgnuya German, Isgen; Latin, hg0, toquor, Greek,
I0eos &c-all these words being symbolized by the
qualities and functions OF the tongue. The four let
tiers IL. NJ, n, r. refer TO liquids, not only meta
phoricaly, but really, actually they are the initials
nf yxny
of moving or flowing, peculiar to liquids as motion,
maritime, nautical, qd eaf, race, run, road Rhone'
The lecturer referred to the faulty teaching Of
children who should, he said, be taught first the or
gans Of speech, and then the letters of the alphabet
as representing these organs II this were done,
then what seems ncongruous in foreign languages,
would be reconciable He illustrated this view by
selections Of words from German, English &c, and
enumerated the different languages OF Europe
When be mentioned the Hungarian language, he
took occasion 70 show the affinity between It and the
aboriginal American language
No class OF men. said he in conclusion, have done
so much injury 10 language as scholars Johnson
went very far toward destroying the pure OLD Anglo
Saxon. by atinizing it. and other learned men FOL
lowed his example. The low, common Peopie, uie
uneduc ated, do more 10 preserve the purify OF tne
language, than all the scholars In the wofid anu
they pronounce It best for they cling to the ancient
remuneration You smile AT the lTlshnan when ne
SAYS haste but this the correct pronunciation Tor
there is no such sound III the word as bee, conse-
quenty our pronunciation of the word beast, thus,
best, is wrong.
Dr. X proposes to give twelve lectures on the or
ganic laws Of language. But this must depend on
his receiving sufficient number Of subscribers at IS
the course
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