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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXII (search)
one and the same physiognomy. Remarkable analogies of grammatical structure per- Vater, Ueber America's Bevolkerung, 207. vade the most refined, as well as the most gross. Idioms as unlike as Sclavonic and Celtic resemble each other in their internal mechanism. In the Esquimaux Vater's Mithridates, III. Part III. p. 441-444. there is an immense number of forms, derived from the regimen of pronouns. The same is true of the Basque language in Spain, and of the Congo in Africa. Here W. Humboldt, on the Basque Lang. p. 58. is a marvellous coincidence in the structure of languages, at points so remote, among three races so Lafitau, II. 474. different as the white man of the Pyrenees, the black man of Congo, and the copper-colored tribes of North A. Humboldt, Voy. III. 307; Researches, i. 19. America. Now, a characteristic so extensive is to be accounted for only on some general principle. It pervades languages of different races and different continents: it must, then, be the