The Sanskrit language,whatever be its antiquity,is of a wonderful structure; more than perfect than the Greek,more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined the either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity,both in the roots of verbs, and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong, indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which,perhaps,no longer exists.