[202] [Dr. Hunt, however, does not think that language is such an unfailing test as our author appears to imagine. He considers that language must be utterly discarded as the first principle of anthropological classification, and gives a far higher value to religion and to art, considering language merely as the third element. It is possible to change the language of a race; but apparently impossible to change either their religion or their innate ideas of art. See Hunt on Anthropological Classification (Brit. Assoc., 1863), Anthrop. Rev., vol. i, p. 383. “On ethnology, Professor Müller says, ‘The science of language and the science of ethnology have both suffered most seriously from being mixed up together. The classification of races and languages should be quite independent of each other. Races may change their languages; and history supplies us with several instances where one race adopted the language of another. Different languages, therefore, may be spoken by one race, or the same language may be spoken by different races; so that any attempt at squaring the classification of races and tongues must necessarily fail.’”(On the Science of Language, R. S. Charnock; Anthrop. Rev., vol. i, p. 200.)—Editor.]
[203] See Chavée, Les Langues et les Races, 1862.
[204] Histoire des Langues Sémitiques, p. 467, Paris, 1855.
[205] See Prichard, The Eastern Origin of the Celtic Nations, edited by Latham, 1857.
[206] “The sound of their voice resembles sighing.” “Their language resembles the clucking of a turkey.” Compare White, Account of the regular gradation of Man, p. 67, London, 1799. Appleyard, The Kafir Language, p. 3, 8vo, King William’s Town, 1850. Morel, Traité des Dégénérescences de l’espèce humaine, p. 42, Paris, 1857. “The Kafirs have adopted some of the inflexions in use among their neighbours, but as a simple ornament to their speech, without attributing any special signification to these ‘cluckings.’”—Is. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (Correspondence).
[207] Compare Cabanis, Rapports du Physique et du Moral, 13th year, vol. ii, p. 201: Knox, The Races of Men, p. 82, London, 1850: Morel, Dégénérescences de l’Espèce Humaine, Paris, 1857.
[208] See Beddom in English Cyclopædia: see, also, Vitruvius, book vi, ch. i.
[209] Rapports du Physique et du Moral, 13th year, vol. ii, p. 294.
[210] Histoire Naturelle Générale, vol. iii, p. 319, 1860. We do not here quote the facts relative to the Barbary and Corsican stag (ibidem, p. 407), since they rest only on the negative assertion of an old author.
[211] “Partout de petits changements, nulle part de grands.” Hist. Naturelle Générale, vol. iii, p. 388.