Excerpt from The Development of the Roman Constitution, Vol. 2
During my tutorship at Yale College, I offered several courses, all of which had more or less to do with Roman history. Roman history divides it self quite naturally into three periods, the first of which extends to the conclusion of the second Punic war. In this early time the evidence is largely philological. Any intelligent criticism of it is, therefore, impossible without some knowledge of how language lives and grows. The root, the stem, the termination, and the derivation, which are so incomprehensible to the Philistine, have here the greatest importance. For this reason, in one of my courses, an attempt was made to fix the position of the Latin language by some discussion of the nature of language, the relation of languages, and the principles of euphony, and by applying these general ideas to Latin word-formation, etymology, and syntax. After reasonable opportunities in this direction, I took it that one would be ready to learn something about the development of the Roman state, and of its political, legal, and religious institutions.
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