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philology

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philology
1. the scientific analysis of written records and literary texts
2. (no longer in scholarly use) the study of literature in general
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And yet the former history continues to be studied side by side with the laws of statistics, geography, political economy, comparative philology, and geology, which directly contradict its assumptions.
As for the philology of them, that is but a circle of tales, and therefore not fit for this writing.
Though the form-masters still taught French to the lower school, another master had come, with a degree of doctor of philology from the University of Heidelberg and a record of three years spent in a French lycee, to teach French to the upper forms and German to anyone who cared to take it up instead of Greek.
 
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