CAMBRIDGE WEST.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3077, 5 April 1892, Page 3

CAMBRIDGE WEST.

The I'ukekuia Mutual Improvement Society held their u?ual meeting at Cambridge West on Friday evening. There was a very large attend nice. Ihe Rev. C. 11. Garland delivered an entertaining and instructive lecture mi " Hidden History, dealing with the oiigin and history of word-.. Ho quoted largely from 1 rof. Max Muller, and referred to Latin, Greek, and Sanscrit as different d alects of one language, of which-as far as is known-the Sanscrit is the oldest. He also referred to a tribe in South America so degraded as to possess scarcely any language, ihis tribe ivas considered by Darwin as an example of undeveloped humanity, but on examining their language Max Midler came to the conclusion that it contained many vestiges of a higher mental cult'-iie and more extensive vocabulary. Max ttlullor maintains that nothing has ever linen added to langunge, and tiio lecturer showed that the science of philology confirms the Biblical record tint in the beginning the whole earth was of one language. The illustrations, which were very numerous, were very instructive, and in many cases very humourous, and were delivered in Mr Gar. land's usual telling style. On the whole, the lecturo should largely tend to increase

the vocabularies of tho members, which no (limit lined it. After :in interval of discus- „ tlin niemlffirs, while thanking their president fur liix intntoting lecture, took tlm (iptK.rtunity nf wiyincr " Good-bye,"' miiil wishing iiim haiM'ineis, prosperity, unci ; t liirir'i fphnn «f usefulness in his new lncil itm nt Wanganm. No stops have yet been ':ikon tn appoint a new president in Mr Cm-land's place. _____