Excerpt from Language and Conquest: A Retrospect and a Forecast In considering the conquests of the other. Allophylian tongues of Asia, we have to deal with triumphs based 011 forcible intrusion rather than 011 moral sway. Some of them have, however, been no strangers to a literary culture of a comparatively high rank. Bat, except in rare instances of s1;ll'-abnegatien, where scholars, with nothing to tempt them but the love of truth, have turned aside from the iiesperian Gardens of Aryan Philology into the apparently ...
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Excerpt from Language and Conquest: A Retrospect and a Forecast In considering the conquests of the other. Allophylian tongues of Asia, we have to deal with triumphs based 011 forcible intrusion rather than 011 moral sway. Some of them have, however, been no strangers to a literary culture of a comparatively high rank. Bat, except in rare instances of s1;ll'-abnegatien, where scholars, with nothing to tempt them but the love of truth, have turned aside from the iiesperian Gardens of Aryan Philology into the apparently barren fields of Allophylian research, as yet little has been done towards the formation of ajust estimate of their importance. When Dr. Leyden, assisted by William Erskine, translated from the J aghatai Turki the Memoirs of Mohammed Baber, Lord Jeffrey wrote that the strongest impression which the perusal of the work left 011 the mind, besides that of the b'oundlessness of authentic history, was that of the uselessness of all history that did not relate to our own fraternity of nations. That opinion still largely prevails. It has required all the learning eloquence and enthusiasm of Max Muller, and now and then a little pardonable exaggeration, to persuade his adoptive compatriots that.tha treasures of 01 en Sanscrit. Literature are really worth examination. The languages of Corea, Japan, * Burmah and Siam, are cognate to the Chinese, though diffeiing f1on1 it in important respeAbout the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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