[ CONTENTS OF FOURTH VOLUME.]

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[I.]

Inaugural Lecture, On the Value of Comparative Philology as a branch ofAcademic Study, delivered before the University of Oxford, 1868

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[A.]On the Final Dental of the Pronominal Stem tad

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[B.]Did Feminine Bases in â takes in the NominativeSingular?

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[C.]Grammatical Forms in Sanskrit corresponding to so-called Infinitives inGreek and Latin

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[II.]

[Rede Lecture, Part I.]On the Stratification of Language, delivered before the University ofCambridge, 1868

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[Rede Lecture, Part II.]On Curtius’ Chronology of the Indo-Germanic Languages, 1875

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[III.]

Lecture on the Migration of Fables, delivered at the Royal Institution,June 3, 1870 (Contemporary Review, July, 1870)

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[Appendix.] On Professor Benfey’sDiscovery of a Syriac Translation of the Indian Fables

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[Notes][188]
[IV.]

Lecture on the Results of the Science of Language, Delivered before theUniversity of Strassburg, May 23, 1872 (Contemporary Review, June,1872)

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[A.]θεός and Deus

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[B.]The Vocative of Dyaús and Ζεύς

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[C.]Aryan Words occurring in Zend but not in Sanskrit

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[V.]

Lecture on Missions, delivered in Westminster Abbey, December 3,1873

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[A.]Passages shewing the Missionary Spirit of Buddhism

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[B.]The Schism in the Brahma-Samâj

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[C.]Extracts from Keshub Chunder Sen’s Lectures

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[Dr. Stanley’s IntroductorySermon] on Christian Missions

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[On the Vitality of Brahmanism],Postscript to the Lecture on Missions (Fortnightly Review, July,1874)

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[VI.]

Address on the Importance of Oriental Studies, delivered at theInternational Congress of Orientalists in London, 1874

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[Notes][355]
[VII.]

Life of Colebrooke, with Extracts from his Manuscript Notes onComparative Philology (Edinburgh Review, October, 1872)

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[VIII.]

Reply to Mr. Darwin (Contemporary Review, January, 1875)

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[IX.]

In Self-defense

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[Index] to Vols. III. and IV.

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[ I.]
INAUGURAL LECTURE,
ON THE VALUE OF COMPARATIVE PHILOLOGY
AS A BRANCH OF ACADEMIC STUDY.

DELIVERED BEFORE THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
THE 27TH OF OCTOBER, 1868.

The foundation of a professorial chair in the University of Oxford marks an important epoch in the history of every new science.[1] There are other universities far more ready to confer this academical recognition on new branches of scientific research, and it would be easy to mention several subjects, and no doubt important subjects, which have long had their accredited representatives in the universities of France and Germany, but which at Oxford have not yet received this well-merited recognition.

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.