Dialogue

 1 Craty|   determined beforehand, as in a modern didactic treatise, the nature
 2 Craty|       Etymology in ancient as in modern times was a favourite recreation;
 3 Craty|     primitive men were like some modern philosophers, who, by always
 4 Craty|           II) proceed to compare modern speculations respecting
 5 Craty|          either in ancient or in modern times, until the nature
 6 Craty|           thus anticipating many modern controversies in which the
 7 Craty|          of language? Like other modern metaphysical enquiries,
 8 Craty|        the reflections which the modern philosophy of language suggests
 9 Craty|          corrections of it which modern philology has introduced.
10 Craty|      languages in the terms of a modern one. It has a favourite
11 Craty|      transitions from ancient to modern forms of them, whether in
12 Craty|   difference between ancient and modern European languages. In the
13 Craty|      recovered by the efforts of modern philology. The verses have
14 Craty|         been usual to depreciate modern languages when compared
15 Craty|       the truth seems to be that modern languages, if through the
16 Craty|     better distributed. The best modern languages, for example English
17 Craty|      reduced to the low level of Modern Greek or of Mediaeval Latin.
18 Craty|     decline impossible. Nor will modern languages be easily broken
19 Craty|      between them in ancient and modern languages we are not able
20 Craty|         Another quality in which modern are superior to ancient
21 Craty|       from tautology as the best modern writings. The speech of
22 Craty|        and there, my friend, the modern interpreters of Homer may,
23 Craty| undoubtedly like too many of our modern philosophers, who, in their
24 Craty|          fashionable language of modern times has twisted and disguised
25 Craty|        as iesis in corresponding modern letters. Assuming this foreign