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Excerpt from Origin of the Western Nations Languages: Showing the Construction and Aim of Punic; Recovery of the Universal Language; Reconstruction of Phoenician Geography; Asiatic Source of the Dialects of Britain; Principal Emigrations From Asia; And Description of Scythian Society, With an Appendix, Upon T Basing the first upon the bold and wide-reaching conceptions, antiats verifications and mastery of fads, advocated by Mr. Sayce upon the necessity of studying one language with the reference of more, upon Liebnitz's advice to apply languages to the researches after the migrations of races and history, and upon the practical and sensible opinion expressed by Mazochi, Riccobaldi, Lamprede, Comte de Ca ylus, and others (which was also my own as soon as I could see into the mechanism of languages), that the Iliad, Odyssey, and other works attributed to Homer, are only translations from Frank and Celtic, therefore Iberian works I saw and recognised that the word Sanskrit, which had blocked my road for years, was simply a compound idiom of the two French words Sens and Escrit, and that, therefore, French or Frank, Syriac or Celtic, was a language which was much older than Homer. The whole system of language unfolded itself to me, as it indeed will do to any one who, having a thorough knowledge of English, French, and Iberian or Bearnese, and a fair acquaintance with Basque or Hebrew, German, Spanish, Italian, and Latin, will study language upon the basis of languages, geography and history. The door into the dilemma of history and language opened itself to me, and I was able to wade easily and satisfactorily through the subjects which until then had been com pletely closed to me. I recognised, upon the second part of my sub ject, that the various names met upon the maps referred to as many pages, and even chapters, of history and, with the third, that if a man had only enough memory to retain the various meanings contained in geography alone, he would not require any other book, for geography would teach him everything - language, history, and moral philosophy. This may take people by surprise; it will nevertheless be found to be true. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.