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and 2, every etymology which assumes a change of letters 

 ought to have in its favor at least one example of a change 

 quite identical with that which it assumes." If thus the pho- 

 netic growth alone of our word out of the Latin curatio (cura), 

 is more organic than out of the Grreek xopcaxou^ and therefore 

 preferable, — it becomes still more so through historical proba- 

 bility and through the beauty of its import. 



