It led to the foundation of the science of comparative philology by Franz Bopp in his treatise on the conjugational system of Sanskrit in comparison with that of Greek, Latin, Persian, and German (1816).
And of course at that time my knowledge of comparative philologywas a mere dabbling.
Nothing contributed so much to make the study of comparative philology a laughing-stock as this endeavour to build up theories of the origin of the language on such arbitrary foundations.
No doubt some higher unity may possibly emerge out of this historical investigation, for which again the study of comparative philology offers us the best parallel.
Recent studies in language, or the science of comparative philology, have thrown light on the origin of mythology, and upon the affinities of different polytheistic religions with one another.
Comparative philology, following languages back to their earlier stages and to the parent stocks, unveils the condition of society at remote epochs.
But the science of comparative philology is not confined in its researches upon early forms of speech to the bygone remnants of a distant age.
And they are both facts which, at first sight, seem to countenance the view that, in its last resort, comparative philology fails to testify to the natural origin of speech.
It is not therefore on the history of Comparative Philology in general that the ideas of Darwin have had most influence.
Aberdeen), Reader in Comparative Philology in the University of Cambridge.
GILES, Reader in Comparative Philology in the University of Cambridge.
When I was asked some time ago to deliver a course of lectures on Comparative Philology in this Institution, I at once expressed my readiness to do so.
In the history of the physical sciences, however, we look in vain for a place assigned to comparative philology, and its very name would seem to show that it belongs to quite a different sphere of human knowledge.
We hear it spoken of as Comparative Philology, Scientific Etymology, Phonology, and Glossology.
The science of Comparative Philology is, however, in too unripe a condition to allow us to speak with dogmatic assurance with regard to its inferences; even those which seem fundamental have been, and may again, be called in question.
We have to reconcile the pre-historic anthropologist and the ethnologist with the student of comparative philology.
But as to the application to myth of the principles of comparative philology, Mannhardt speaks of 'the lack of the historical sense' displayed in the practical employment of the method.
It requires not only an accurate acquaintance with the minutest details of comparative philology, but a knowledge of the history of religions which can hardly be gained without a study of original documents.
All this happened not more than two hundred years ago; and even a hundred years ago, nay, even after the discovery of Sanskrit and the rise of Comparative Philology, the troublesome ghost of Huet was by no means laid at once.
Now the s of Siva is a palatal s, and no scholar who has once looked into a book on Comparative Philology need be told that such an s could never correspond to a Greek Zeta or a Latin J.
In 1868 Max Muller had been indemnified for his disappointment over the Sanskrit professorship by the establishment of a chair of Comparative Philology to be filled by him.
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