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Even if they took into account the entire group of Aryan and Semitic languages - although within that group they would find modes of thought that would somewhat embarrass them such as the usage of Gaelic and Old Irish of putting the subject of a sentence in the genitive - yet this woould be like judging of botanical possibilities by phanerogarnous plants so small and so peculiar is that group as compared with the great world of languages the negative resemblance between which may be very roughly described by saying that they make no use of abstract ideas but which differ as much from one another in their ways of thinking as they do from the inflected languages.

I must acknowledge that in opposition to this we find that there are a number of eminent linguists who maintain this method in its extremest possible form.
But I am obliged to say that the