Researches in Prehistoric and Protohistoric Comparative Philology, Mythology, and Archæology, in Connection With the Origin of Culture in America and the Accad or Sumerian Families (Classic Reprint)

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The following work contains a summary of various researches in their practical application. The substance of it was read in the Session Of1874; before the Anthropological Institute; but the paper as here given, and published in the Journal, includes the results of subsequent investigations. This process has not tended to consolidate, but rather to disturb the growth.

At the same time it is the development of long preceding studies. When in Asia Minor, I soon began to see that the Hellenic theories were insufficient to explain the phenomena Of Greek Asia, or even Of Hellas itself, notwithstanding that so much Of mythology and of geography had been made to take an Hellenic shape. Investigations in the track of my late friend, Von Halm, as to the Albanian languages, afforded no better solution. It was not difficult to recognise, What SO many subsequent discoveries have compelled most men to acknowledge, that monuments and still more enduring myths, and to my sight even men, were to be found throughout Western Asia, belonging to epochs far anterior to the Hel lemic migrations.

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