Philological Proofs of the Original Unity and Recent Origin of the Human RaceJohnes, Arthur James
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Philological Proofs of the Original Unity and Recent Origin of the Human Race
Johnes, Arthur James
Ethnology; Human beings -- Origin; Language and languages; Monogenism and polygenism
NORTH MIDDLE SOUTH
AFRICA—_Egyptians, AFRICA—_Negroes._ AFRICA—_Hottentots,
&c._ &c._
1.
2.
3. Tewho, Eye.
4. Batte, Eye.
5. Bal, an Eye, Bel,
Eyes. (_Egypt._)
6. Belle, Blind.
[Supposed by Dr.
Loewe to be from Bel
or Bal, and the
Hebrew negative
suffix “_l_.”]
(_Egypt._)
7. Rogue, Heaven.
Asia. Europe. America.
1. E e d, the Hand. Yede, Eye.
(_Zamucans, S. A._)
2. E ed o, to feel, Eido, to _see_, to
to perceive, to know. (_Greek._)
know.
3. Do-eth re, Eye. Do-eth, Wise.
(_Zend._) (_Welsh._)
4. Toké, Eye.
(_Villelans, S. A._)
5. B th, the Pupil Ball, Eyeball.
of the Eye. (_English._) Bli-ck.
(_Hebrew._) (_German._)
6. Blink. (_English._)
[Compare this word
with the last.]
7. Blind, Black.
(_English._)
Remarks.
The proofs involved in the previous Analysis of the original unity of the
different languages of the globe are distinct and vivid. It will be
observed that those irregularities of structure, which are to be found
more or less in each individual language, viewed separately, disappear
when the whole mass of human tongues are thus surveyed in combination as
derivative branches of one original speech. Moreover, it will be seen that
the greater the number of languages, and the wider the geographical
surface of the globe comprised in the comparison, the more minutely may be
traced the steps of the transition by which the languages of mankind
branched off from their common Original. This evidence is in its nature
demonstrative of the truths developed in these pages.
It will be apparent that the Heavenly Bodies were originally designated by
numerous synonymes applied to the Sun, Moon, and Stars alike. In the
course of time, a portion of these terms fell into disuse among each
different branch of the human family; and as these various tribes did not,
except in individual instances, preserve the same terms, these changes
gave rise to differences, apparently fundamental. Moreover, in those
instances in which the _same_ terms were retained, time produced important
conventional differences of _application_. For example, in order to
distinguish the Sun, Moon, &c. from each other.
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