, 1873-05-11


lent watars ruzting that favorable current would
Land them upon hospitable Shore and thus In this
elemental strife this ancient civilized people became
is claimed that by this catastrophe. area larger
than that of the Kingdom OF France became engnfed,
til Iass bst Which hS a TIT
Of Yucatan, Honduras, Guatemala and nd. The The
CUR Of Mexico. With the pennsulas Of Yuc.tan and
Guatema1n vent down the splendid cities Of Pa!enquo
and aRd ohefs be see a5s
the Continent hhs tiuce risen sufficiently to restore
many OF these ancient cites.
The Able Brasseur boldly asserts that he haa found
proofs tlat tho first civilization Of the earth WIS On
tho ground which sank In the cataclysm OF the An.
tiee that the hEst ceremonial religion commenced
over the two hemisphares and that there we havs the
beginning and basis Of American ethnology.
vievs. The words 1aas and Atlantic have no salts
factory etymo1ogy In any language known to Europe.
5 e spS be m (
radical a. au whieh agnthss water man, and the top
as auan-on the border Of, or arnid the water-from
which have the adjective Afamtic We have, also,
etlaeaso COMBAT or BE- IN @ ag9ny IT. means aso 70
atlas.
Prof. David Swing has ....~
IA FEW THOUGHTS OK LANGUAGE"
in which he says these timely words
The victory OF education, go Tar ae words nfng tn
formation, Il to be gained not in tho study Of many
languages, but in the mastery Of one The soul casts
but shadow Of ITSELF It has but one image Of It's
deeds and feelings and thoughts. The Engltah Inn
gaage, the German language, the French language,
each the picture Of one thing, man and though
thsT 81 aa a
dred names "slaver5 we have learned in al theae
only one fact; Hence the chief aspiration Of Zach
great Languages, In which tho worlds past ia all
Treasured up without loss Of thing or Thought.
ohdf S sfe b The a0e
ono in which we are TO live, moVe and hare our beng
aany beautiful gil comes from our semtnar1es able
ish, and English but the meaning Of the word friend,
revealed from the days Of Christ down to the bosom
Of her mother, has escaped her inquiry Coming
from the classical COLLEGE, VIC can express the word
. liberty" in Greek aud Latin and sanscrt but we
strangers to all that import which tho human race
souants Whether the word terminates in tas" with
the 1atina, Or ad" with the Spanish Is an 1nvesnsa-
'ha e s small Win .aa
the human race. The deepest study OF the mind
seeking development can never be found N
within the same tongue 70 express' thought in
ten languages ia desirable az In some one Ian
eda Of Of speech to the
French, Ia only to- have gallery al the poftfa IN
which are Of one hero or Madonna We aak you
and piny the younger and elder, and your answer ts
Sc No; but have Ave portraits Of Socrates H.
feTe8DR fact, fhe 0f
are ton photographs OF the same face The highest
education will always be found in developing the re-
sources OF Of the three vast Instruments OF
the spirit EngLIsh French, German. They may all be
studied indeed, but only that into which the soul
happens to have been born may reveal ~ rs
and become medium Of the mind in relation to Itself
and to it's fellow atmosphere in which the soul
ay to md fro to au the ACCESSIBLE heights and
depths Of its vast world.
inasmuch as the nineteenth century surpasses al be-
fore 1t, and inasmuch language must be faithful
picture Of tho soul, It follows that Tue English aud
German, and French tongues arc each more express
eive, a to quality and quantity, than the tongues that
lay Ike beautiful vestu1e upon Athens Or Rome.
Each one OF these modern tongues includes Greeee,
and then reaches beyond Tue soul having gown
larger larger the Ehadow casts larger ia tie drap
cry that enwraps It. Each language possesses 1sT
individual trats, but look into tho mighty English
alone mud hare the record and picture Of humanity
up hour In all its Joy and sorrow, strength and
beauty -..
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