This, too, must be set down simply as a
survival, for in the British Isles as elsewhere the truth has
been established. Such men as Max Muller and Sayce in
England,--Steinthal, Schleicher, Weber, Karl Abel, and a host of
others in Germany,--Ascoli and De Gubernatis in Italy,--and
Whitney, with the scholars inspired by him, in America, have
carried the new science to a complete triumph. The sons of Yale
University may well be proud of the fact that this old Puritan
foundation was made the headquarters of the American Oriental
Society, which has done so much for the truth in this field.[[204]]
V. SUMMARY.
It may be instructive, in conclusion, to sum up briefly the
history of the whole struggle.
First, as to the origin of speech, we have in the beginning
the whole Church rallying around the idea that the original
language was Hebrew; that this language, even including the
medieval rabbiinical punctuation, was directly inspired by the
Almighty; that Adam was taught it by God himself in walks and
talks; and that all other languages were derived from it at the
"confusion of Babel.
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