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language, but even preserves the random order in which vowels and consonants are jumbled up as they were in the Greek adaptation of the primitive Semitic arrangement of 3000 years ago."
It is curious to reflect that the upholders of the "Greek Culture" are often found ready, though unconsciously, to twist and torture facts and conclusions to serve their own purpose, and reserve to themselves the benefit of doubt as regards date; but whenever the priority of the Hindus is unquestionable, an appeal is made to the theory of common origin and independent parallelism of growth.[1] These scholars seem to smart under a sense of injury if they have to con-
- ↑ Cf. "une affirmation nouvelle de l'unite de l'esprit humain. Chaque fois que l'homme au même degree de culture se retrouve dans le mémes circonstances, il tend à penser, à croire, à sentir, à agir de la même façon."—Goblet d' Alviella on "Classical Influence in Literary and Scientific Culture in India"; "Bull. de l' Academie Royale de Belgique," 3rd Series, T. 34, pp. 484 et seq.
