The evolution of man: a popular exposition of the principal points of human ontogeny and phylogenyFrom the German of Ernst Haeckel . anic languages and its branches—the primitive Ario-Romanic—it is found to develop with the same luxuriance.The primitive Grceco-Romanic language gave rise, on theone hand, to the Thracian language (Albanian Greek), andon the other, to the Italo-Keltie. From the latter in turnsprung two divergent branches—in the South, the Italianbranch (Romanic and Latin), and in the North, the Keltic,from which arose all the different British (Old British, OldScottish, and Irish
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The evolution of man: a popular exposition of the principal points of human ontogeny and phylogenyFrom the German of Ernst Haeckel . anic languages and its branches—the primitive Ario-Romanic—it is found to develop with the same luxuriance.The primitive Grceco-Romanic language gave rise, on theone hand, to the Thracian language (Albanian Greek), andon the other, to the Italo-Keltie. From the latter in turnsprung two divergent branches—in the South, the Italianbranch (Romanic and Latin), and in the North, the Keltic, from which arose all the different British (Old British, OldScottish, and Irish^ and Gallic tongues. The numerousIranian and Indian dialects branched out in the same wayfrom the primitive Aiian language. ( 23 ) TABLE XT. Pedigree of the lado-Germanic Language*. Lithaanians Ancient PrussiansLetts Anglo-Saxons -t-Baltic Eaces Low Germang Netherlanders High Germans Ancient Saxons SerbiansPolishCzechs VVest Sclaves RussiansSouth Sclaves South-east Sclaves Eclaves Saxons Friesians I I Low Germans Scandinavians Goths Germans Primitive Germans Eclavo-Letts Ancient BritishAncient ScotchIrish Solavo Germans. Italo-Kelts Alhanese I Greeks Primitive ThraciansIndians Iranians Arians Graeoo-Eomass s/^ Ario-Bomans Indo=Germaiia 24 THE EVOLUTION OF MAN. A close study of this pedigree of the Indo-Germamclanguages is, in many respects, of great interest. Com-para-tive Philology, to which we are indebted for our know-ledge of this subject, thus shows itself to be a true science—a natural science. It, indeed, long ago anticipated in itso^vTi province the ph3^1ogenetic method with the aid ofwhich we now attain the highest results in Zoology andand in Botany. And here I cannot refrain from remarkinghow much to the advantage of our general culture it wouldbe if the study of languages (which is undoubtedly one ofthe most powerful means of culture) were comparativelyprosecuted; and if our cut and dried Philology were re-placed by a living, many-sided, comparative study o