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Abstract

EVERY one will hear with genuine regret of the proposed resignation by Prof. Max Muller of the Chair of Comparative Philology in Oxford University. He has resolved to take this step on the ground that he begins to feel the need of rest, and that he wishes to be able to devote all his attention to the ancient language and literature of India. He has just finished, he says, the work of his life, the Editio Princeps of the text and commentary of the oldest of the sacred books of the Brahmans, the oldest of the Aryan world. It was this which first brought him to England in 1846, and it was in order to be able to stay in England that he accepted the duties of professor. Dr. Müller was appointed to the Chair of Natural Philology in 1868, in which year it was founded and endowed. “I have,” he justly states, “satisfaction that I leave the new science of language, to which my work as Professor has been mainly devoted, firmly established in the system of academic studies, and that the University will find among my pupils several quite able to fill my place.” It will not be an easy matter, we fear, to find a worthy successor.