Lectures on

The Science of Language

Delivered At The

Royal Institution of Great Britain

In

April, May, and June, 1861.

By Max Müller, M. A.

Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford; Correspondence Member of the Imperial Institute of France.

From the Second London Edition, Revised.

New York:

Charles Scribner, 124 Grand Street.

1862

Contents

• Dedication
• Preface.
• Lecture I. The Science Of Language One Of The PhysicalSciences.
• Lecture II. The Growth Of Language In Contradistinction ToThe History Of Language.
• Lecture III. The Empirical Stage.
• Lecture IV. The Classificatory Stage.
• Lecture V. Genealogical Classification Of Languages.
• Lecture VI. Comparative Grammar.
• Lecture VII. The Constituent Elements Of Language.
• Lecture VIII. Morphological Classification.
• Lecture IX. The Theoretical Stage, And The Origin OfLanguage.
• Appendix.
• Index.
• Footnotes