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 better, it has swept away numberless errors; and it has opened up rich fields for linguistic research.

As the study of linguistics conformed more and more to the methods of science—that is to say, as it became broader and more rational discoveries were multiplied and their meaning grew clearer. Linguistics now has taken its place among the other sciences; its objects are more definite than formerly; its definitions are less murky and phantastic; its phenomena are not so elusive and shadowy as once they were. Not only are corollary subjects forced to yield important illuminations, but subjects which at first glance seem foreign to linguistics, also bring forth light.

Physiology, physics, psychology, history, ethics, anthropology, phonetics, politics, war, geography, archeology, ethnology, etc., are called on, each in turn, to contribute some useful information bearing on linguistics. Studies are going forward in audition, phonation, and in the formation of acoustic, mus-