Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 4 / Essays Chiefly on the Science of Language

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ARTHUR PENRHYN STANLEY, D.D., DEAN OF WESTMINSTER, AS A TOKEN OF GRATITUDE AND FRIENDSHIP FROM ONE WHO HAS FOR MANY YEARS ADMIRED HIS LOYALTY TO TRUTH, HIS SINGLENESS OF PURPOSE, HIS CHIVALROUS COURAGE, AND HIS UNCHANGING DEVOTION TO HIS FRIENDS.



If we take into account the study of ancient languages only, we see that as soon as Champollion’s discoveries had given to the study of hieroglyphics and Egyptian antiquities a truly scientific character, the French government thought it its duty to found a chair for this promising branch of Oriental scholarship. Italy soon followed this generous example: nor was the Prussian government long behind hand in doing honor to the newborn science, as soon as in Professor Lepsius it had found a scholar worthy to occupy a chair of Egyptology at Berlin.
If France had possessed the brilliant genius to whom so much is due in the deciphering of the cuneiform inscriptions, I have little doubt that long ago a chair would have been founded at the Collège de France expressly for Sir Henry Rawlinson.