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to be remarked, as it is without contradiction a hundred times 

 more productive than its congeners anime and animus ? 



" The Latin animus has been compared to the Greek anemos. 

 We can with as much, nay with more reason, compare our root 

 enim to this last one. In fact it is found in the form anim, with 

 the Greek meaning, in the impersonal verbs animat, the wind 

 blows ; pitanimat, the wind blows this way ; ondanimat, the 

 wind comes from that direction, etc., etc. 



"But here is another peculiarity which comes to our mind 

 which cannot fail to draw the attention of an Oriental scholar : 



" In Hebrew, the third person masculine singular of the first 

 tense of the indicative serves to form all the other persons and all 

 the other tenses of the verb. 



'' In Algonquin, the third person singular common gender of 

 the present of the indicative serves to form all the other tenses and 

 persons of the verb. 



" Thus it is said in Hebrew : qathal, he has killed ; qahalta, 

 thou hast killed ; qathalti, I have killed. In the, same way it will 

 be said in Algonquin : nicise, he kills, ki nieiSe, thou killest, ni 

 niciSe, I kill. 



" In both languages, the third person does not take any charac- 

 teristic for itself, whilst the two others are accompanied or preceded 

 by the signs which distinguish them, ta, ti, ki, ni. 



" The third person is then the root of the verb. Therefore that 

 is the reason why the Algonquin dictionary gives first that person, 

 in imitation of the Hebrew. 



" We have said that the syntax of our two savage languages is 

 pretty comj^Ucated. It is too much so to allow us to enter, in a 

 review like the present one, into the details which would be neces- 

 sary to give a correct idea of it. For the same reason we will not 

 give the list of the conjugations either Iroquois or Algonquin ; we 

 shall only say that they are d'vided into copulative, disjunctive, 

 suppositive, concessive, causal, temporal, adversative, optative, 

 and expletive. 



"We have affirmed that these two languages are very clear, very 

 precise, expressing with facility not only the exterior of ideas, but 

 still more their metaphysical relations. In fact, the Algonquin has 

 not less than eight moods, whose names are : indicative, condi- 

 tional, imperative, subjunctive, simultaneous, participle, contingent, 

 and gerund. With the exception of this last one, all these mo6ds 



