 | 1923 - 498 pages
...them Aryas, we predicate nothing of them except that the grammar of their language is Aryan. . . . To me an ethnologist who speaks of Aryan race, Aryan...is as great a sinner as a linguist who speaks of a dolichocephalic dictionary or a brachycephalic grammar." Practically all anthropologists, however,... | |
 | Frank Johnston - 1925 - 376 pages
...120): "I have declared again and again that if I say Aryas I mean neither blood nor bones, nor hair nor skull; I mean simply those who speak an Aryan language....is as great a sinner as a linguist who speaks of a dolichocephalic dictionary or a brachycephalic grammar." I do not deem it necessary to enter into a... | |
 | Frank Hamilton Hankins - 1926 - 404 pages
...conquerors or conquered, they may have adopted the language of their darker lords, or vice versa. ... To me an ethnologist who speaks of Aryan race, Aryan...is as great a sinner as a linguist who speaks of a dolichocephalic dictionary or a brachycephalic grammar." « Nevertheless, he still clung to the hypothesis... | |
 | Paul Carus - 1918 - 860 pages
...languages. Similarly Max Muller calkd the speakers of Indo-European languages Aryans ; he said, however : "To me an ethnologist who speaks of Aryan race, Aryan...is as great a sinner as a linguist who speaks of a dolichocephalic dictionary or a brachycephalic grammar."11 But it is perfectly legitimate to apply... | |
 | Fred Singleton - 1998 - 228 pages
...long enough to become aware of the fallacy of equating race and language, and in 1888 he wrote that 'an ethnologist who speaks of Aryan race, Aryan blood,...is as great a sinner as a linguist who speaks of a dolicephalic dictionary or a brachycephalic grammar.' Miiller's disavowal was, unfortunately, ignored... | |
 | Arthur Bonner - 1990 - 488 pages
...neither blood nor bones nor hair nor skull. I mean simply those who speak an Aryan language. . . . An ethnologist who speaks of Aryan race, Aryan blood,...is as great a sinner as a linguist who speaks of a dolichocephalic dictionary or a brachycephalic grammar." About the time Miiller was correcting his... | |
 | Peter Gay - 1993 - 724 pages
...advocated and declared that "Aryan" could refer only to a linguistic quality. It was really most annoying: "To me an ethnologist who speaks of Aryan race, Aryan blood, Aryan eyes and hair, is as plural and as a stigma "removable in detail") from the "Germanic races" (which think of "Sin in the... | |
 | William Petersen - 1997 - 346 pages
...race and language. As the eminent nineteenth-century German philologist Max Miiller once remarked, "An ethnologist who speaks of Aryan race, Aryan blood,...is as great a sinner as a linguist who speaks of a dolichocephalic dictionary or a brachycephalic grammar." Certainly the best comment on Nazi stereotypes... | |
 | Joseph Theodoor Leerssen - 1999 - 182 pages
...taalkundigen zelf in deze begripsverwarring boter op het hoofd hadden: To me an ethnologist who speaks of the Aryan race, Aryan blood, Aryan eyes and hair, is as great a sinner as a linguïst who speaks of a dolichocephalic dictionary or a brachycephalic grammar. It is worse than... | |
 | Dorothy M. Figueira - 2002 - 222 pages
...Scandinavians. This may seem strong language, but in matters of such importance, we cannot be too decided in our language. To me an ethnologist who speaks of Aryan...is as great a sinner as a linguist who speaks of a dolichocephalic dictionary or a brachycephalic grammar. (Miiller 1888: 120) Blood has nothing to do... | |
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To me an ethnologist who speaks of Aryan race, Aryan blood, Aryan eyes and hair, is as great a sinner as a linguist who speaks of a dolichocephalic dictionary or a brachycephalic grammar. 
