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pend his researches on the same, as though he had arrived at 

 its elements, but, by a further application of the analysis, en- 

 deavours to resolve both the base and the salifiable principle 

 into parts still more simple. To illustrate this by a direct 

 application of the analysis, let us take the words, in Greek, 

 Xeycw and "koyos. These are each easily resolved into its radix, 

 and that part which properly and solely inflects the word ; 

 Xey-o;, for instance, into Xey and co, Xoy-os into Xoy and os. It 

 is manifest, however, that the radices Xey and X07 will bear a 

 still further comparison with one another, as being closely 

 allied in external characters, as well as in radical meaning. 

 The result, then, of this comparison will be, to shew that the 

 difference between the peculiar modifying ideas contained in 

 these particles, as connected with their distinct oral or written 

 characters, will lie in the e or 0, inserted between their radical 

 letters X-y. Now, it is obvious, that as Xeyo; signifies / speak^ 

 and Xoyof a word, or that which is spoken, therefore the differ- 

 ence between the force of the s and inserted will consist in 

 this, — that while the former is used in expressing simply the 

 action denoted by the root, the latter serves to mark the result 

 of the action as carried into effect. We shall be confirmed in 

 this view by further considering that Xoy is not only found as 

 a constituent of Xoy-or , but also of Xs-Xoy-a, the second perfect, 

 or perfect middle, where, obviously, the force of the inserted 

 will be connected with the action of the verb considered as 

 past. 



In like manner, analysing jtxev-os-, (xsv-co, ^ov-os^, /xs-/xov-a, we 

 arrive at the particles fxsv and /xov, the former of which, indeed, 

 is still found as a distinct word in the Greek tongue, and bear- 

 ing a significancy perfectly agreeable to the radical meaning 

 attached to it in its compounded state, while /xov clearly denotes 

 the result of the same, it being the necessary consequence of 

 remaining behind all others, that we shall find ourselves alone, 

 as expressed by the word (mov-o^. 



Here it may be observed, that by taking this analytic view of 

 the peculiar distinguishing characteristics of the constituent 

 particles presented to us in their uncombined state, we shall 

 free ourselves from that artificial system of derivation which is 

 founded solely on a. mechanical addition or subtraction of letters. 



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