“If we preserve in our histories of the world the names of those who are said to have discovered the physical elements—the names of Thales, and Anaximenes, and Empedocles—we ought not to forget the names of the discoverers of the elements of language—the founders of one of the most useful and most successful branches of philosophy—the first grammarians.”—MAX MÜLLER. “Speech is silvern, silence is golden,” is the well-known saying of a modern prophet, wearied with the idle utterances of a transition age, and forgetful that the _prophet_, or προφητής, is himself but the “spokesman” of another, and that the era which changed the Hebrew seer into the _Nabi_, or “proclaimer,” brought with it als…
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