Lectures on the Science of Language Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in April, May, and June, 1861 [and] in February, March, April, and May, 1863, in Two Volumes

xiv, 459; viii, 600 pp. Two volume set. Green cloth boards with gilt titles on spine. Muller was an influential philologist, and a founder of the Western academic study of India. A collection of lectures on the science of langauge, given at the Royal Institute of Great Britain in 1861 and in 1863. VOLUME ONE CONTENTS: The Science of Language One of the Physical Sciences; The Growth of Language in Contradistinction to the History of Language; The Empirical Stage in the Science of Language; The Classificatory Stage in the Science of Language; The Genealogical Classification of Languages; Comparative Grammar; The Constituent Elements of Language; The Morphological Classification of Languages; The Theoretical Stage in the Science of Language; Origin of Language; Appendix; Genealogical Tables of Languages; Idnex. VOLUME TWO CONTENTS: Introductory Lecture, New Materials for the Science of Language, and New Theories; Language and Reason; The Physiological Alphabet; Phonetic Change; Grimm's Law; On the Principles of Etymology; On the Powers of Roots; Metaphor; The Mythology of the Greeks; Jupiter, the Supreme Aryan God; Myths of the Dawn; Modern Mythology.