American Languages, and Why We Should Study Them

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AN ADDRESS
DELIVERED BEFORE THE PENNSYLVANIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, MARCH 9, 1885,
BY DANIEL G. BRINTON, M.D., PROFESSOR OF ETHNOLOGY AND ARCHÆOLOGY AT THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA.
REPRINTED FROM THE PENNSYLVANIA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY.
PRINTED BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA. 1885.


Mr. President, etc.:
I appear before you to-night to enter a plea for one of the most neglected branches of learning, for a study usually considered hopelessly dry and unproductive,—that of American aboriginal languages.