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histories , found in their massive manuscript libraries , form a good ground for the correctness of their theory . After careful search as to the many theories extant , we incline to the opinion that the original language of man has had no existence since the beginning of the separation of Adam ' s
family , except as here and there in the Oriental tongue , there may have been a word or idiom retained . The mutability of language has not been the result of any one cause , but many have been the causes of changeand of the
form-, ation of tongues so contrary to each other . Men separating from each other , would soon lose the manner of expressing a certain name . Two nations of men discovering the same object , would call it by a different name . "Tho differences of
climate , intercourse between different nations , the unsettled disposition or temper of these nations , " would all have a great tendency to make languages decidedly different .
This fact may be made more apparent by referring to the difference of dialects of modern days . In Scotland , Germany and other countries , we have the different parts of the same nation speaking dialects so dissimilar that they can scarcely understand
one another . In Ireland one will speak the native tongue , while another uses the English brogue . Germany has the Hi gh and the Low Dutch . While hi America these things are not so clearl y distinguished , yet we have enough to carry out the
thought quite clearly . Canadians speak in a manner more ., like thc mother English across the water , than the people of the United States , yet they are no more of English origin than the latter .
We see a very distinctive difference between the language of the East and West , and a still greater perhaps , between the North and South in the pronunciation of names rather than in other parts of speech . For instance : The name Norwich in New
England is called JSor-rich , while in the West we hear men speak of Norwick . giving the eh the k sound . AVhat is said then of this may be said of a thousand other words . Englishmen persist in dropping the h where it should beand
, putting it in where it should not be . Another remarkable fact is that members of a nation , changing their residence to another nationality , instead of conforming
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to the manner of tongue of the one which they have adopted , persist in clinging to the expressions of their mother tongue . These causes prevailed in the early history of the world , and had a great tendency in changing the language of each nation .
And they would have developed different languages even if the dispersion of the tower of Babel had not occurred . But the ill-advised , not to say the criminal , acts of the people there had much to do in the great culmination of the dispersion and the formation of new languages .
Notwithstanding these facts there has been a oneness of language in a certain direction that we will reserve for future articles upon "The Dispersion" and "The Language of Masonry . " The latter of ivhich , we are inclined to thinkat some time in the future is to be
, a great power in the hand of God in the overthrow of heathenism and idolatry , and in the establishment of Christianity in the world . But this cannot be well shown until Ave have first seen the changing of language in all other things .. It Avill then
be our province to show hoAV this is to be accomplished and to answer the query : " HOAV can this be , while so many Masons though believers in God are . not Christians . "—From the Voice of Masonry .
St. Vincent.
ST . VINCENT .
BY BRO . CHALMERS I . PATON . ( Past Master , No . 393 , England . ) There is some talk of a neiv lodge being opened in Glasgow , and taking for its name St . Vincent . Under these circumstances a
slight sketch of the early Christian martyr may be interesting : — ST . VINCENT THE MARTYR , a Spanish Christian . He is said to have been of noble birth . It is generally believed that he was horn at Osca—now Huesea—in
Granada ; but some authors say that he was born at Saragossa , and others that he wa- born at Valentia . The date of his birth is uncertain , but must have been some time in the latter part of the third century , as he seems to have been still _ .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Language.
histories , found in their massive manuscript libraries , form a good ground for the correctness of their theory . After careful search as to the many theories extant , we incline to the opinion that the original language of man has had no existence since the beginning of the separation of Adam ' s
family , except as here and there in the Oriental tongue , there may have been a word or idiom retained . The mutability of language has not been the result of any one cause , but many have been the causes of changeand of the
form-, ation of tongues so contrary to each other . Men separating from each other , would soon lose the manner of expressing a certain name . Two nations of men discovering the same object , would call it by a different name . "Tho differences of
climate , intercourse between different nations , the unsettled disposition or temper of these nations , " would all have a great tendency to make languages decidedly different .
This fact may be made more apparent by referring to the difference of dialects of modern days . In Scotland , Germany and other countries , we have the different parts of the same nation speaking dialects so dissimilar that they can scarcely understand
one another . In Ireland one will speak the native tongue , while another uses the English brogue . Germany has the Hi gh and the Low Dutch . While hi America these things are not so clearl y distinguished , yet we have enough to carry out the
thought quite clearly . Canadians speak in a manner more ., like thc mother English across the water , than the people of the United States , yet they are no more of English origin than the latter .
We see a very distinctive difference between the language of the East and West , and a still greater perhaps , between the North and South in the pronunciation of names rather than in other parts of speech . For instance : The name Norwich in New
England is called JSor-rich , while in the West we hear men speak of Norwick . giving the eh the k sound . AVhat is said then of this may be said of a thousand other words . Englishmen persist in dropping the h where it should beand
, putting it in where it should not be . Another remarkable fact is that members of a nation , changing their residence to another nationality , instead of conforming
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to the manner of tongue of the one which they have adopted , persist in clinging to the expressions of their mother tongue . These causes prevailed in the early history of the world , and had a great tendency in changing the language of each nation .
And they would have developed different languages even if the dispersion of the tower of Babel had not occurred . But the ill-advised , not to say the criminal , acts of the people there had much to do in the great culmination of the dispersion and the formation of new languages .
Notwithstanding these facts there has been a oneness of language in a certain direction that we will reserve for future articles upon "The Dispersion" and "The Language of Masonry . " The latter of ivhich , we are inclined to thinkat some time in the future is to be
, a great power in the hand of God in the overthrow of heathenism and idolatry , and in the establishment of Christianity in the world . But this cannot be well shown until Ave have first seen the changing of language in all other things .. It Avill then
be our province to show hoAV this is to be accomplished and to answer the query : " HOAV can this be , while so many Masons though believers in God are . not Christians . "—From the Voice of Masonry .
St. Vincent.
ST . VINCENT .
BY BRO . CHALMERS I . PATON . ( Past Master , No . 393 , England . ) There is some talk of a neiv lodge being opened in Glasgow , and taking for its name St . Vincent . Under these circumstances a
slight sketch of the early Christian martyr may be interesting : — ST . VINCENT THE MARTYR , a Spanish Christian . He is said to have been of noble birth . It is generally believed that he was horn at Osca—now Huesea—in
Granada ; but some authors say that he was born at Saragossa , and others that he wa- born at Valentia . The date of his birth is uncertain , but must have been some time in the latter part of the third century , as he seems to have been still _ .