The Language Test

Abstract

Up to the present we have purposely abstained from discussing philological and historic-cultural differences, because these are not always reliable as a criterium of race, and frequently lead the inquiry in an undesired direction. If we now turn our attention to this matter, we do so in compliance with Prof. Bolk’s expressed wish that a posteriori a common ground of agreement may be found between anthropological and linguistic science. But, as was the case with the formulation of hypotheses as to the origin of Friterpians and Groterpians, this must be considered as a reluctant concession to the spirit of the age. It is probably still too early to be able to trust with confidence to these latter hypotheses and too late to base them on philology and cultural history.

The erratum of this chapter is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-1003-5_13