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भाषाविषयक पाश्चात्य प्रयत्न. ३२७ एक कारण झाले. ते हे कीं, ग्रीक दुसरं कारण, लोकांप्रमाणेच अन्य पाश्चत्यानी सुद्धां, दुराग्रहास निष्कारण अवकाश दिला. त्यामुळे, ह्या शास्वाची अवश्य ती प्रगति न होतां, तिची वाढ आपोआपच कुठित झाली. वास्तविक रीतीने पाहिले तर, प्रत्येक शास्त्राची प्रगभता, पूर्णता, व त्याचा विस्तार, इत्यादि सर्व केवळ | १ :: They ( the Greeks ) only distinguished between Greeks on one side, and all other languages on the other, comprehended under the convenient "name of buabourous. ' ( Max Muller's Science of Language. vol. I. P. P. 136-137 ). २ असा दुराग्रह कित्येक पाश्चात्यांससुद्धां पसंत नाहीं. ह्यासचंधाने सेस म्हणतोः-- « Rut even the older Humanists were not much better. They knelt before the spirit of classical antiquity, with a worship at once child-like and unTreasoning.... ... Unreasoning and unreasonable how• ever, as the Humanists were in their treatment of grammar, they were out done by the Orthodox who found in the errors of the Vulgate—such as Da Milci bibara direct proofs of Divine inspiration, and the power of the Holy Spirit to override the usual arules of grammar. ... ... So, again, Smaragdas writes in i eference to the rule laid down by Donatus, that Sealde, Scopde, quadrigae, must be used in the plural : we shall not follow him, beeause we know that the Holy Spirit has always ( namely, in the Vulgate ) employed these words in the singulan. " ( vol. I. P. P. 26-27.)