... Fichte [1762-1814] believed all Europeans to be related by blood. But the Germans were the only people who retained their ancient spirit undistorted by foreign influences. While the French adopted a Latin language, Germans kept their original tongue, retaining the spiritual qualities as ‘the original race’. Still close to the ways of their tribal warrior-ancestors, they were free of Latin, French and Jewish ...
... than a red ant. He was an exquisite lyrist—much more spontaneous in his lyrism than the more sophisticated and well-balanced Horace, a poet of passionate and irregular love, and he got out of the Latin language a melody no man could persuade it to before him or after. But that was all. Horace on the other hand knew everything there was to be known about philosophy at that time and had indeed all the culture ...
... existence and even as its most valuable part; she created a Graeco-Roman civilisation, left the Greek tongue to spread and secure it in the East, but introduced it everywhere else by the medium of the Latin language and a Latin education and succeeded in peacefully overcoming the decadent or inchoate cultures of Gaul and her other conquered provinces. But since even this process might not have been sufficient ...
... a red ant. He was an exquisite lyrist—much more spontaneous in his lyrism than the more sophisticated and well-balanced Horace, a poet of passionate and irregular love, and he got out of the Latin language a melody no man could persuade it to before him or after. But that was all. Horace on the other hand knew everything that was to be known about philosophy at that time and had indeed all the ...
... whether it has not like other roots sacrificed much of its store to give thereby a more precise value to those significances which it has kept. We turn to the cognate Greek & Latin languages for a clue. We find in Latin a brief list of vocables obviously derived from the same root AN . anima , breath, wind, life, soul animal animus , mind anas , a duck annus , year ... downwards. The difference is eloquent of the real origins & processes of language, —for we see that in the vaguer & more general idea the two languages agree,—it is in certain precisions that they differ & apply the same idea from opposite standpoints. Again Greek has ἄνεμoς OA ( anama ) for wind, breath, life, mind, Latin anima & animus , Sanscrit preferred originally ana , then threw it aside... the abundant & superfluous richness of the early Aryan tongue, while Greek & Latin have disburdened themselves of unnecessary variations. We have Sanscrit anas , anasam and Latin anas , anatem , the same word (L. & Gr. t often stand for S. s ), but anas in Sanscrit means birth, living being, parent, in Latin a duck. What possible connection can there be between the two vocables? Scientific ...
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