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(1892) Author: Klas Pontus Arnoldson With: Brooke Foss Westcott
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greater affinity one to the other in bodily form,
follows also a greater similarity in feeling, habit
and thought.

Day by day, too, the economic fellowship of
Europe increases. Communications by ship,
railroad, post and telegraph are developed; by
means of State loans, share and exchange
connections, interests are knit together. Therefore
we see the Bourse, the barometer of economic
life, fluctuate when serious rumours of war are
afloat; an evidence that common economic
interests and war are at variance one with the
other.

I shall not venture further, but simply
indicate in closing that even the differences in
language will certainly go on being gradually
adjusted.

It is a remarkable fact, says the above-named
investigator, that in nearly all Indo-Germanic
races, family appellatives, father, mother, sister,
brother, daughter, are the same. A similar
agreement may be observed in the names of
a great number of everyday things, such as
house, door, way; but one finds that whilst
these observations hold good in respect to the
designation of objects of a peaceful character,

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