[122] Professor Issel, quoted in Popular Science Monthly.
[123] Wilson has remarked the striking similarity of the pottery of these people to American fictile wares. This similarity applies also to the early Cyprian art.
[124] I agree with Gladstone's conclusions as to the date and country of Homer.
[125] I suggested these terms in my lectures published under the title "Nature and the Bible," 1875.
[126] Since these words were written I have read the remarkable book of Edkins on the Chinese language, which supplies much additional information.
[127] Donaldson has pointed out (British Association Proceedings, 1851) links of connection between the Slavonian or Sarmatian tongues and the Semitic languages, which in like manner indicate the primitive union of the two great branches of languages.
[128] "Man and his Migrations." See also "Descriptive Ethnology," where the Semitic affinities are very strongly brought out.
[129] I can scarcely except such terms as "Japetic" and "Japetidæ," for Iapetus can hardly be any thing else than a traditional name borrowed from Semitic ethnology, or handed down from the Japhetic progenitors of the Greeks.
[130] See art. "Philology," Encyc. Brit.
[131] Grammatical structure is no doubt more permanent than vocabulary, yet we find great changes in the latter, both in tracing cognate languages from one region to another, and from period to period. The Indo-Germanic languages in Europe furnish enough of familiar instances.