VIII. Dr. Glass's Letter to William Marsden, Esq. on the Affinity of certain Words in the Language of the Sandwich and Friendly Isles in the Pacific Ocean, with the Hebrew

Extract

You know my opinion as to the originality of the Hebrew language: to this you must attribute the trouble I am now giving you.

If there was a time when all the inhabitants of the world spoke Hebrew, then we are justified in our attempts at tracing to that primary source any word in any language spoken on the habitable globe: and an argument connected with these data, though it may not carry conviction with it, will not, I hope, be considered, primâ facie, as absurd and impossible.