This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 Excerpt: ...the soul feel as if deep within itself there were another self, to which few things in this world had the power to make themselves heard or seen." And further, on the relation of English to German: "The grammatical constitution of the English language is Teutonic. In every part of the language its inward chemical and vital energies are all Teutonic. A very small proportion of its vocabulary is Celtic, and of the Latin it absorbed less than any of the other provinces of Rome, though so much, so that its lexical elements are chiefly Anglo-Saxon." To the foregoing remark only one objection can possibly be raised, that it produces the impression as though English had absorbed its Latin elements when England was a Roman province, or because it once was a Roman province, and that it received them in the same manner as the other provinces of Rome. This would be an inaccurate conception of the true fact, and as the latter is of great importance, if we wish to understand why, next to the German, the French language naturally deserves the greatest attention on the part of the English or American student, I will here briefly refer to what is well known, theoretically, by all scholars, but practically appreciated by only a few. The purely Germanic tongue of the Anglo Saxon was powerfully modified by the language of the Norman-French who were, likewise, of Germanic descent, but had adopted the common language, " lingua rustic" of northern France. This language arose from a corruption of the bad Latin which the military and hierarchial Latin conquerors of Gaul had introduced, by the German invaders, who, in their turn, had conquered Gaul, and to whom France owes its present name. At the time William of Normandy conquered the Anglo Saxon realm, No...