Let us at the outset avoid the error of confusing community of language with identity in race. (William Z. Ripley: 'The Races of Europe', 1899)
'A little learning,' said Pope, 'is a dangerous thing', and seldom has this been more true than in the field of comparative linguistics, a speciality, like psychoanalysis, in which every layman considers himself an expert.
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