root-elements

Updated: May 21, 2025

Now Max Müller sees, back of this period, still open to science, in which the root-elements of the human languages were fixed, a long period of exuberant and unhindered growth of the elements of language, in which the roots were separated from the multitude of nascent tones by elimination or natural selection in the struggle for existence.

Rudolf Schmid - The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality