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Opuscula, with the subtitle Essays chiefly Philological and Ethnographical, is by R. G. Latham. The writer believes that the foundations of Etymology are to be laid upon the study of existing processes. The writer sketches a system of Scientific Etymology whose primary divisions would be two: the processes that change the form of words, and the processes that change their meanings.
The writer says that, with the exception of the Russian (a doubtful exception), we come in contact with more Languages than any nation under the Sun. The text calls it an impossibility to say in what year of the duration of a common mother-tongue the Greek separated from the stock that was common to it and to the Latin. The text says ethnology, with its palæontological reasoning from effect to cause, speaks only where history, with its direct testimony, is silent.
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