Darwinism and the linguistic image : language, race, and natural theology in the nineteenth century
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Darwinism and the linguistic image : language, race, and natural theology in the nineteenth century
（New studies in American intellectual and cultural history）（Johns Hopkins paperbacks, History）
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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In the nineteenth century, philology-especially comparative philology-made impressive gains as a discipline, thus laying the foundation for the modern field of linguistics. In Darwinism and the Linguistic Image, Stephen G. Alter examines how comparative philology provided a genealogical model of language that Darwin, as well as other scientists and language scholars, used to construct rhetorical parallels with the common-descent theory of evolution.
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