Favours of the Gracious God — Page 99
99 HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD AS show it to us, so that we may learn the extent of root words they possess, and the extent to which they can employ their roots when expressing a matter, and con - firm whether they possess a system of such words or whether it is mere boasting. At this point I deem it prudent to address and re - move some of the suspicions and misgivings of Max Müller which he has noted in his book, Lectures on the Science of Language volume 1, under the discussion on Philology. The following discussion is presented in the form of “he says” and “my response”. He says: Among the factors prohibiting the ad - vancement of knowledge, one is that some nations coined derogatory epithets in relation to other nations for viewing those nations with denigration and con - tempt; therefore, they were not able to learn the lexicons of such ridiculed nations. Until the words barbarian and ع�ج می [ ‘ajam i ] were not expelled from human vocabu - lary and dictionaries, and in their place the word brother was established; and similarly, until the mutual right of all nations of the world was not acknowledged that they are one species, our science of language did not begin. My response : the statement of the writer seems to suggest that, in fact, the writer has an objection to the