¹ E. H. Sturtevant and R. G. Kent, ‘Linguistic Science and Classical Philology’, Classical Weekly 22. 9-13; Holger Pedersen in a review of the publications of the Linguistic Society, Litteris 5.148-59 (1928).

² For that reason I shall not discuss the ‘relationship’ between philology and linguistics. Viewed concretely it would mean the relationship as it exists in some individual or group, and that is ever-shifting.

³ For I would go beyond Sturtevant-Kent and say that all, not practically all, civilization is the result of language.

^3a The sentiment is Lessing's. In homelier form is the English saying:

Always to court and never to wed

Is the happiest life that ever was led.

⁴ I shall limit myself to this country; and as I am thinking of pure, not applied, science, organizations such as the National Council of Teachers of English, the American Association of Teachers of Spanish, the American Association of Teachers of Italian do not come into consideration.

⁵ F. G. Moore, ‘A History of the Association’, TAPA 50. 14 (1919).

⁶ Language 1. 4₁ (1925).

⁷ Cf. Birt, ‘Kritik u. Hermeneutik’, Muellers Hdb. d. klass. Altertumswiss. 1.3³.4: ‘Der Philologe behandelt das Gewesene, der Historiker das Geschehene’. Also Maurice Bloomfield, ‘Philology’, Johns Hopkins Alumni Mag. (an unfortunately out-of-the-way place) 14. 5 (1925): ‘History draws this picture in outline that may be compared to a pen and ink drawing, philology lays on the colors. History is engaged with what may be called the more external, pragmatic, secular aspects of the human past; philology deals more with its inner, spiritual aspects.‘ The quotation in the text is from the same page.

⁸ ‘Methodik’, Einl. in d. Altertumswiss. 1². 35. The whole section ‘Die Einheit der philologisch-historischen Methode’ will repay close reading.

⁹ The practical difficulty of forming derivatives from such phrases is properly stressed by Pedersen.

¹⁰ The other passages are Esper, Monogr. 1. 5; Espinosa 3. 20₁.

¹¹ Official dialects change slowly. If that of our Universities comes to preserve a fossilized meaning of ‘philology’, the fact may be added to our collections of similar curios.