Show ga C V ip K X g kg ar vv V v V q g t M 2 N 4 W 50 V I 1 0 4 i L 5 z n 6 M W it av irois jc C r q beag or r secondary ath I 1 cat 1 importance portalee 1 I language age like religion is isa distinct of quits I 1 secondary ethnological importance says the monist after an individual has remained a long time in a wintry he usually 1 learns the 1 language and its customs and yet the italian colony in prance is m made ado u up p chiefly I 1 efly of immigrants more or less t transient who scarcely eyer ever learn to speak the language of the country they inhabit but the italian laborers 0 are re contented with very low wages they therefore compete with french pi ench laborers and thus tend to lower their wages but in austria where aher the there are according d to the last arzt census about italians ia almost all al I 1 labore laborers M the wages of the austrian labo laborers reas are no DO higher than those of the italian hence between the two there arise no serious ericus i competition there is however the same difference ference dLf of language in france the union of native laborers against the itan italian is 19 not on account of any antagonism of race but solely an economic phenomenon the same thing does not happen in austria because there is no antagonism tag tagan lam in france the italian language has become almost a mark of distinction of the laborers accepting a low wage in india says ibbetson similarity of food is is employed as an exterior sign of com community unity of blood now what would be said of an ethnographic classification sifi cation of indian races based upon erang language is no better f for 0 it is only an external characteristic of at no intellectual or physiological importance impo rt if it were taken as the principal distinction of the various races it would have to be admitted that the people who speak the modern romance languages are not latin but that would be absurd frederick muller taking language as the distinguishing feature of human races is not able in his ethnography to avoid a classification entirely empirical he forgets that an interior inferior people may learn a language from one race to another there is no proof says huxley tor for asserting the incapacity of a race mee to substitute another language for its own owa physical moral and mental peculiarities are transmitted with blood and not i with language in the united states the negroes have spoken english for generations |