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that lopouase oan be chaR0ed' Mjler's A-."eiican
readers, who arc likely to have the american edition
Of his works stereotyped "a s52 from the second
London eGition w, 3e able by turning to p o. 10
de,cy, at ors~ the important Interpolation which we
have il ;icised The words which have been dis
cas.ied for those just quoted are, Is rey dcn 10
er,lan uhat causes Tie gTorh Of language" and they
were quoted By Professor Whitney AS late a. 800
N. A. Rev., Oct, p 1863 as an evidence OF thfir
authors uncertain and wavering Vows OF the nature
| of language.
One portion Of the article entitled Epitked Oman
Tia is design to establish against Prof. Whitney the
charge of indiscrininate personality No lover Oh
| fair play can read il without Indignation One II
asounded that great scholar has the har'iihood 10
put his name to such record. To examine and ex-
pose it as fully as it deserves is impracticabe here
but we quote few examples. On page 80 t5:3)
Miller says: "The motive imputed to Prot. Oppert
in writing his essay rs that lie is Jew and wanted
| TO stand up for the Shemites.'" The only answer
needed is "A rather long quotation. Prof. Whitney
saws (Or and Ling. 81. i. 2}7): "A kind Of expana-
ton of some Of the vagares of this paper suggests
| tsef tn us with so much plausibility that we
| cannot foTbear giving it expression, eren hoagh
| doubtful bow far zee are Jashted IN J"d0'h9
| our authors mOires. That his pOlemic is aimed
with special directness against NJ. Renan and
| the latteI's opinions il very evident. both from
express References aud from less opcn yet intelhg-
bic hints. He is particularly severe upon his col
leagues denial to the Semitic race Of part OF thai
! Importance in the history Of humanity with which II
is generally credited VI. Renan is an Indo-European,
who being special student and teacher of Semitic
phloogy seems abuse this position of vantage, III
order to decry the Scmites, and cNtol undlly the
race to which 10 himself belongs. ii appears, then,
| ~ if NJ. Oppcrt, occupying contrary position
being on the one hand, Semitic by birth, and on
the other, a professor of the chief OF the indo-
| European aI guages-had thought it incumbent
upon him to undertake TO turn tie tables. and give
the sodisdHt Indo-Europcan race thorough setting
down."
Miller says tp.5oJ f. i2l," Professor Steinthal was
a neat friend of his does lac imagine that his violent
recruitment WAS entirely unproyokodT Aud again
IN his hist Of proof" Up. 800 - j he asks, why
locs be call Professor Stcinthal, HGUm NcaihdF J.
that personal or not y Tho facts are, Professors
Whitney and Stcintha have never met They are
absolute and total stIing 10 each o;her-so muchso
that Professor whitney Lad even Incorrectly stated
Professor Sointhal5 frs; name Heinrich lLects,
pref pyi; and subsequently, discovering his error
took OCCASION to correct il. One puzzled 10 perceive
the personality in giving an author la, full name
then " Jggusi tchiG,ho" Is personality tOI. anu
Ling. It. /. 2cSl and JJrtiort 'UHiom bright Vh'-
neg p 500 5lSl since IA his case We have an odous
forgery e he snd his school" 10 Indicate its writer's
aRinus Another of Miilcr's proofs in the same
Isl Up. 500 - is,"Ns nave fouid in his book
nothing bat mistaken facts and erroneous dcduc-
lions" The brack,tcd words originated in the
German Workshop THO next sentence exposes
The deception. " The chapter II ut entitled 10 Du
called able" lOr. and Ling -. T. 37iJ The
criticism which called forth S;eiEtals angry answer
was ccuiinc, to q single topic ANA a ,inge chapter.
On u. JlG l,3Il Miller says Professor whitney liz
l-E,s up with charging Professor Godstiicker, who
Was himself q Gcuuan-i bcg 'uy roaicTs pardon,
but ain only quoting from - North American Re-
.icw "a ioung las oSn nc-i'' Professor Whit
ncy's words lOr. AID Ling. 81. IL l"E We are
no. al all icHpg 10 cgodtt that, being himself Cor
maf. domiccd in England. he can have done any
thing consciously to ioul h.s own nest as the say
.ng Is /; bat we might la.rl, Layo expected him to
take more pam. to avoid whatever couI possibly
have All eject that way" On page 30 1851 we
rad M. Rcian t. told that III objection t. The
joct.iao IL primitive lndo-,.uIol IN moAo'J Ii-
bisn /, frtcoi, not Coz ?ny cogrucy which II pos
-c-sos, bat only on account Of the ro-p''iabi.iy
Il ". Ec..n." Profc SOY Whitney Gays l-ec-
lures. lp 27lJ, "Juo moro thcoretc objection to tn
doctrine of a primitive indo-Eui0pean monosylIa-
bis'r may take Tao tine ~ notice, more on a.
count of the spcctabiig OF Us than for any
cogeucy which il ia itself po,sasscs' In lis pre-
face Up. viz he also acknowledges indebtedness "to
the admirable work of NJ. Ernest Remain" TIE fore
Going kyihea Oraata are easily enough dealt with.
but some % the others require too long quotations
H. attempt To- cxpose them. IL the foriu which Mtl
Ter has given them Ia lilo, heyously ms, aiding.
For example, author who wished lp. j2s
lj45l 10 con.nc his reply Is much RS possible to
bare facts" gives tp 5l6 ti3ll What seem 10 he
three quotations from Professor Whitney,
criticism On "Scllcicl.cr ard Darwinism." Each Of
the three is shGm. Tie p4,,r from which they
noiminay taken opens with glowing culogy tun-
fortunately too long to quote hercl after which the
author saws: " Ii then take the liberty to crltcise
and combat in this paper some of his fundamental
views of language, ! do it with no abatement OF
due respect {, him, bat because he stands forth a
very conspicuous representative of what | cannot
but think "a falls aud hurtful Tendency in part of
modern linguistic science Or and Lng. Sti l., 29sl
MHlicI's quotation is He represents n false and
lnrtful tendency a similar erpof might be male
of the bulk of disecfa membrd which form the So
called "Spcileiam." Tho criticism upon Bopp needs
ONLY 20 be read in its context to put it into the
category with those upon Schlcichcr. Miller has
lately said PREF. tn Rig Neda, vol. VIZ p. W. 81 be-
gin to long Tor difficult and corrupt passages
to grapplc with, for some abrupt quotation from
the Sd'yayaRaka TO verify, or for some obscure
allusion to Panim to trace back to it's original
source" Ono would think that he coui not DO
better than =" to glapplo" with this ,'pctgiua; for
although the passages may not be so diicuh" rs
some. 1t is a morbid taste that should long for any
more corrupt
But the worst case in Muler's article yet re-
mains to notice. At the end, after disclaimer
of all anger (p. 526 ljl4l) hc says (p. 627 (5l4n,
\ q