MAX MÜLLER (Friedrich, 1823-1900, Anglo-German Orientalist and Comparative Philologist)

Portion of Manuscript concerning geology, signed in the margin, “if the formation of the crust of the earth had been throughout regular and uniform, and if none of the lower strata had been tilted up, so that even those who run might read, no shaft from the surface could have been sunk deep enough to bring the geologist from the tertiary down and face to face with, the Silurian rooks. The same in language. Unless some languages had been arrested in their growth during their earlier stages, and had remained on the surface in this primitive state, exposed only to the decomposing influence of atmospheric action, & to the alterations of literary cultivation, I doubt whether any scholar would have had the courage to say that at one time Sanskrit was like unto Chinese, and Hebrew no better than Malay...”, 7” x 4”, no place, no date



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