Excerpt from The Home of the Indo-Europeans Far-reaching results have followed the dis covery, a century or more ago, of the relation ship of most of the languages of Europe with one another and with those of India and Persia. The study of these relationships developed into the independently influential science of com parative philology. It shared with Darwinian evolution the responsibility for the vast expan sion, both culturally and historically, of the 19th century horizon of human thought. It brought to the modern world new conceptions of the past and a new consciousness of nationalism and racial fraternities that was not without politi cal importance in the recent war and in the re adjustments' that followed it. It was early evi dent that the speakers oi these languages of Europe and Asia were the heirs of a common culture and that their several dialects were the descendants of a prehistoric tongue, the so called indo-european, which was not identical with that of the Hebrews, the Babylonians, the Egyptians, or other ancient peoples. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.