Chapter I: Introduction: To the Science of Language

_INTRODUCTION TO THE
SCIENCE OF LANGUAGE._

BY
A. H. SAYCE,
DEPUTY PROFESSOR OF COMPARATIVE PHILOLOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:
C. KEGAN PAUL & CO., 1, PATERNOSTER SQUARE.
1880.

“Ille demum foret nobilissima grammaticæ species, si quis in
linguis tam eruditis quam vulgaribus eximie doctus, de variis
linguarum proprietatibus tractaret; in quibus quæque excellat,
in quibus deficiat ostendens.”—BACON (“De Aug. Scient.,” vi. 1).

_The rights of translation and of reproduction are reserved._