Excerpt from Fifty Years of New Japan Kaikoku Gojunen Shi, Vol. 2 But the advent of the Meiji era saw the necessity for Such a research, especially as we were impelled thereto by the efforts of foreign inquirers; SO at last, in 1886, a course of comparative philology was provided in the Imperial Univer sity, which contributed not a little to the study Of our mother tongue. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.