The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-05-16

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HISTORY OF HIS PATHOLOGICAL SYSTEM.
Q. How long have you entertained the idea
of this formation and derivation of language
that you call your system2 A. For over thirty
years have been impressed with the fact
that there was something in language that I
was to discover.
@. How early do you date this? A. From
the time was fourteen to sixteen years old,
when / was first interested in the study of
language.
@. At what time in that study did this idea
arise definitely? A. When commenced the
study of the Greek Testament. l now found
new beauties in the Greek language, and per-
fection and method, which satisfied me that
it was the result of an older civilization.
@. Have you given attention to the study
of other languages than the Greek and Latin?
A. Oh, yes; French and German; ia fact,
can read all the European languages except
the Sclavonic. In the study of the Portu-
guese found most difficulty; but, after all.
the Greek and Latin languages, especially the
Greek, we're built up with the utmost art
They were perfected by men who could COM
mand means and time and who had the skill
and industry to study and perfect the philoso-
ply of their language.
LESSON IN GREEK.
Here Rulloff brought his manuscript and
took number of words as illustrating the
system and skill with which the Greek Ian
guage had been constructed, and the Latin
and English derived therefrom. He took
among others the words corobid, lungs,
brain, and traced the manner in which they
were derived from the original significant
roots. He maintained that all the fctions of
Greek and Roman mythology covered some
great pathological truths He took the fable
of Perseus and Medusa, which, being divided,
contained the roots of the words for serpent
and reptile; the text of the story was fore
shadowed and was contained sin the name
itself, and SO of all fables, the names under
which they were known,we monogrammatic
and afforded a key to the story to which they
gave name.
Q. Was the original alphabet of the Greek
language, in your view, formed from arbi-
trary signs and the language thus built up, or
was 1t derived from some other language and
subsequently perfected? A. Hardly arbi-
trary, because that would preclude choice.
There was method in it's formation. Each
letter was indicative.
Q. Do you mean that the Greek is an ori-
ginal language? If not, from what was it
derived? A. The phraseologySof Homer is
worked up wonderfully, and is greatly en-
rlched from that of the early Greek writer's.
The letter ''r" was not found in the earlier
Greek. In writings up to that time that let
ter was not necessary, but when Bacchus came
out of Melia, and bacchanalian life, with its
orgies, revelry and carnivals began, it then
became necessary to use hitherto unknown
letters to properly designate the words
necessary to describe the new conditions of
life: Certain forms of language admit of
perfection; the phraseology of Homer is as
nArfant and fraGh xuhar
and will be for all time. Yet do not believe
that such person as Homer ever lived He
was the centre of system which was per-
fected under that name. L believe, with
others, that no one man was the author of
all that is ascribed to Homer.
@. Some say the same of Shakespeare, that
he was not the originator of all that he wrote
A. don't think that does Shakespeare JUS
tice; his adaptations were really originations
Q. Did you originally select the Greek Ian
guage from which to develop your system?
A. No; was gradually led up to that; my
first purpose was vague, as it must be in the
case of all young men.
@. Are there natural tastes for language,
or do those tastes come from association and
cultivation? A. l do not say that had any
original taste for language; cit came entirely
from cultivation; was thrown among per-
sons who brought the study of language to
my attention.
THE ADVANTAGE TO THE WORLD.
Q. Did you early have a professorship of
languages in view as an ultimate aim A.
had scholarship in view, and some situation
probably professorship.
q. What advantage do you propose to the
world from the development and perfection
of your system? A. 1t makes the study of
language more of a mental discipline, while
at the same time it would simplify the study;
it would teach the scholars to think at every
step, and thinking is mental discipline.
Without child understands the intrinsic
meaning of word, what good can its study
do hin,
Rulloff here gave 4 number of illustrations
of his system. He said that the analysis OF
the names of animals proved the name itself
was derived from the habits, construction, or
the sound made by the animal. Their Ian
guage was methodical. He then stated that
his earnest wish was that the Governor might
fully appreciate this new pathological system,
and that his book might be placed in proper
hands to be developed and published. He
said that he did not care what became of him
self.
Q. Did you adopt self-culture from desire
to thus educate yourself or from the neces-
sity of the case? A. Entirely from necessity.
l should have gone to university had had
the opportunity; my father was dead; was
alone in the world; wanted to be gentle
man; and what could do? Intelligence was
prime necessity to this.
Q. Did you make everything else subordi.
nate to education? A. can't say that.
@. Did you make all of your duties sub
ordinate to philology? A. No; made that
the chief study, without giving up everything
else. turned my chief attention to phiiology.
Q. When did you form the purpose of
making this pathological system a special
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