Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 193, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1918 — Latin and Hebrew. [ARTICLE]

Latin and Hebrew.

For a parallel to Hebrew, which, after having been numbered so very long among the dead languages, Is becoming today again a Hying, spoken tongue; we must turn to Latin, though the analogy is not perfect. If decidedly romantic, in either casa Through all the dreadful days of bar” barism in Europe the Roman Gatholle church helped to preserve the Latin language from oblivion. When. Greek had all but perished from the ken of mankind at large, when even Homer had almost been forgotten; the language of the* Caesars still rendered international communication possible.