The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-17
Aryan Family of Languages.
ARTICLE III.

Aryan Family of Languages.
1t was by the study of Sanskrit the
ancient language of the Hindoos) that
the brotherhood of European Hindoos
: and PsrSians was revealed. A marked
similarity in certain words in the Hin
doc, Persian. Celtic, Italic, Hellenic, Teu-
tonic and Slavonian languages indicated
that Europeans, Hindoos and Persians
had common ancestry. In the words
of Max Muller, 1.-THE languages of all
these branches or groups of people are
akin-that is to say, they are descend
ants of one original tongue, one spoken
in limited locality by single commu-
nifty, but where or when it is impossible
to say"
MANY words still live in India and
England that have witnessed the first
separation of the northern and southern
Aryans, and these witnesses are not to
be shaken by any crosS-eXanlination.
The terms for God, for house, for father,
mother. son, daughter, for dog and cow,
for heart and tears, for ak and tree,
Identical in all the Indo-E European idioms,
are like the watchword of soldiers. We
challenge the seeming stranger, and
whether he answers with the lips of q
Greek, a German or an Indian Gnhabitant
of India), We recognize him as one of
ourselves"
II Is OILY Wllnln the I1SC IUU Years
that the science of philology (from the
Greek philos, love; logos, word has been
added to the worlds knowledge. This is
a historical science, as it reveals the his
tory of man himself. In the words of
William Dwight Whitney, ''Philology
deals with human speech and with all
that speech discloses as to the nature
and history of man. its province is to
trace the social, moral, intellectual and
l.,r,-,
1t differs from the science of comparative
philology in that the latter is a compari-
son of languages in order to ascertain
what language is and how it came TO be
the medium by which man expresses his
thoughts, so that while philology deals
with facts bearing upon the history OF
man and uses languages as q means of
investigation, comparative philology deals
with the history of languages itself and
is the sole object of scientific inquiry.
The great German scholar, Schlegel, was
one of the pioneers in the science of phil
ology, and was followed by Bopp Q79D,
who gave that wonderful contribution to
the new science known as "Bopp'S Com
parative Grammar that great corner
stone on which all modern linguistic
science rests In our own time the
great German scholar, Max Muller, of
Oxford. university, and William Dwight
Whitney, professor of comparative phil
ology in Yale university, have given
valuable contributions to the new sci
ence.
The languages of Europe and India are
only different forms of the original Aryan
speech, and the sacred stories and myths
have a common origin in a religion pos
sessed by the forefathers of these same
European and Indian branches, who
dwelt centuries before in Central Asia
We find that our knowledge of the alb
original inhabitants of Europe, India and
Persia is very meager. We only know
that in many instances the aborigines
were either displaced by the branches of
the Aryan family or were subjugated by
them, with the exception of those who
inhabited the Businesses of mountainous
regions. Thus the Basques of the Pyre-
nees mountains differ from the other
inhabitants of Spain in their language,
customs and religion. They are sup
posed to be the descendants of people
who occupied much of Western Europe
before the advent of Aryan stock. The
environment Of the Pyrenees mountains
prevented their subjugation by the Ar
vans The same conditions obtain in GER
tain districts in the Caucasian noun
tains, in the southern part of Russia.
While the aborigines Of Europe nave
been in the main displaced by the supe-
rior "fair-skinned' Aryans, in india we
find that the comparatively pure de-
scendants Of these two stocks - alb
origines and Aryans-are now nearly
equal in number, there being 100000 OF
each
Unless one knows something of the
chronological history of these two peoples
in India he will have difficulty in under
standing why the Englishmen can aff1l-
late with the Hindoo. We are continu-
ally confronted with the superiority and
the wisdom Of the occult teachings OF
the Hindoo. It is not to the original
inhabitants Of India that we look for in
struction, but to those descendants OF
that same Aryan stock from which we,
the English-speaking people, have de-
scended. We might find difficulty In at
filiating with the Turk or the Arab be-
cause each belongs to different fam
ily-the Turk to the Turanian, the Arab
to the Semitic. Not so with the H1ncoo
and Persian. We may shake the hand
of fellowship and feel the tie OF kim
ship, for somewhere, at some Time III
the remote past, that tie of kinship was
ours.
Let us pay tribute to the wonderful
science-the science of photographer
has revealed to US our sacred brother
hood.
1. The Celts formerly overran all
Western Europe and populated much OF
Spain, France, northern Italy, western
part of Germany and the British Isles.
They were called Gauls in France and
Italy. CThe Gaelic race)
g The Cymric, or the Cymri, must not
be COMPOUNDED with the Cimbric, or CHM
bri. a people whose ethnographical posi-
ton Is unknown.
8. 1t is supposed that Latin and Greek