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ily be taken for sucli ; on the other hand the belligerent impulse 

 noted above would lead him to intensify his concession. The 

 intensifier, once become the habitual attendant of concession, 

 ■would soon be taken as a hint of its occurrence, and would even 

 become in time the recognized sjonbol of the concessive rela- 

 tion. 



Reviewing in this light the development of an illustrative word 

 originally relative, I note that "He lies (there) where he fell" 

 means that ^^He lies in the place (which) he fell in," the idea 

 of place, except so far as defined by his fall, being merely in- 

 definite. On the other hand, ''He lies wherever he fell" means 

 that ''He lies in any place (which) he fell in;" that is, the in- 

 definiteness of the place-idea is now intensified. "Wlierever 

 he fell he lies" may have exactly the same meaning ; but there 

 begins to be felt a suggestion of antagonism between his falling, 

 conceived in any place, and his present lying, somewhat more 

 distinctly conceived as in a place imrticulav, though unknowm. 

 You presumably take me to mean "In spite of the location of 

 his fall" or "Never mind what place he fell in," "in that place 

 he lies." That is, the word which intensifies the indefiniteness 

 of his fall's location begins to suggest the concession of the fall 

 itself. If now I say "Wherever he fell, he lies here," the con- 

 cessive suggestion is fully developed. I mean that "In spite 

 of his falling in any place Avhatever, he lies (not in that place, 

 but) in this jdace." 



In fully acquiring the power of hinting a concessive relation 

 between two thoughts, the intensified indefinite renounces its 

 double membership. The obscurer reasons of this fact may be 

 overlooked in favor of the obvious reason that it is not well for a 

 single word to perform at once too many duties. Accordingly, 

 in "Wherever he fell he lies here," it appears that the originally 

 relative "vfherever" has abrogated its membership of the state- 

 ment "here he lies." It is therefore no longer relative, but 

 solely an intensified indefinite adjunctive to "fell." In this 

 capacity, according to the above noted tendency, it is able to hint, 

 at least, at the concessive relation. That is, it suggests that one 

 thought is felt to vainly antagonize another. 



As this relation is of a high intellectual order and in lingiiistic 



practice extremely important, the means of its indication are nat^ 

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