[34] “Charakteristik der hauptsächlichsten Typen des Sprachbaues,” pp. 20-75. Steinthal’s criticism is criticized in turn by Pott in his edition of Humboldt’s essay, “Ueber die Verschiedenheiten des menschlichen Sprachbaues” (1876).
[35] Edited by Steinthal (1856).
[36] Translated into French by F. de Wegmann (1859).
[37] “Die Darwinische Theorie und die Sprachwissenschaft,” 1863 (translated into French in the first part of the “Collection Philologique,” 1868, and into English by Bikkers, 1869); “Ueber die Bedeutung der Sprache für die Naturgeschichte des Menschen” (1865), and “Die Deutsche Sprache” (second edition, 1869).
[38] Translated into English by Keane for the “Library of Contemporary Science” (1877).
[39] “Essai sur la Langue Poul” in the “Revue de Linguistique” (Jan. et Avr. 1875).
[40] “Ursprung der Sprache,” with a preface by Häckel. Translated by T. Davidson (1869).
[41] “Ursprung und Entwickelung der menschlichen Sprache und Vernunft” (1869).
[42] See also Benfey’s article, “Einige Worte über den Ursprung der Sprache,” in the “Nachrichten von der k. Gesellschaft der Wissensch. zu Göttingen,” Jan. 30, 1878. Benfey here points out that just as we share a capacity of walking with the lower animals, so also do we share with them a capacity for communicating with one another by the help of a language of some sort. And he remarks pertinently that it was not harder for the first men to understand the meaning of what was said to them than it is for domestic animals nowadays to learn the meaning of the words and phrases we use in speaking to them or giving them orders.
[43] “Der Ursprung der Sprache” (1877).