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Having been brought up in the days of enlightened scholaarship
under a distant blessing from Wellek and Warren, and well
rotted earns, I never question "intention" (nor those who
live in tents. Nevertheless I was a bit startled (pleasantly)
to find Humbert, at the bottom of p210 and top of 211 in
Appel's _Annotated...._ referring "to a mural, a name and a
title stating that, "[I] supposed that all had been derived
from some common source..."
To those having served time in the academy of Comparative
Indo-European this has the high-volume familiarity of other
oft=repeated quotations that we (amerloques)also get from
"Four score and seven....) and mutter "Oriental Jones", whose
baptismal words before the Bengal Asiatic Society in 1786
over his new-born Proto-Language were something like, "No
philologer copuld examine them without believing them to
have sprung from some common source." If this be a
coincidence, it would be one to the master's liking.
John
like, "