Excerpt from Introduction to the Science of Language
Professor Max Muller has said °1 The idea that, in order to understand what the so-called civilized people may have been before they reached their higher eu lightenment, we ought to study savage tribes, such as we find them still at the present day, is perfectly just. It is the lesson which geology has taught us, applied to the. Stratification of the human race.
The Rev. Archibald Henry Sayce (A.H. Sayce) (25 September 1846 – 4 February 1933), was a pioneer British Assyriologist and linguist, who held a chair as Professor of Assyriology at the University of Oxford from 1891 to 1919.