376 APPENDIX.— On GREEK ANALOGT. 



M Compreffion, conjoining or comprefllve force. 



N Cleaving or fplitting force. 



E Strong or violent frldlion. 



n Adhelion, adhefive force. 



P Fluency, flowing force. 



2 Tremor, fliaking force. 



T Tenfion, flretching force. 



* Eruptive force, force by which interpofed obflacles are bro- 

 ken through. 



X Opening or disjoining force, force by which two obje(5ls 

 once united are made to feparate. 



4^ Smooth or lefs violent fridion. 



If it be objedled, that fome of the ideas thus fuppofed to be 

 denoted by the radical components of the language, are too ab- 

 (IratS: and metaphyfical to be allowed fuch a place, I would ob- 

 ferve, that in ftating thefe general fignifications, I by no means 

 fuppofe the general idea to have been in view when the various 

 words were formed ; but that the generalization arofe merely 

 from the repeated appUcation of the fame found to exprefs indi- 

 vidual objefts and individual feelings, concurring in the fame 

 common quality ; for in fadl it is rather the expreffion than the 

 idea which has a metaphyfical afpe(5l, moft of the ideas being de- 

 rived from objects in their nature fufficiently obvious and fre- 

 quently occurring. 



Should it be thought abfurd to fuppofe that all the numerous 

 ideas which fpeech is intended to exprefs, could ever originate 

 and fpread out from the few and fcanty fources now laid down, 

 I fliall only reply, that if we can trace in fa(5l the whole body of 

 a copious and expreflive language, as emanating from thefe pri- 

 mitive roots, and can find every idea borrowing its expreffion ulti- 

 mately from one or other of thefe radical founds, we fliall have 

 an argument from fad of the truth of the fyftem, which no rea- 

 foning from improbabilities can poflibly overturn. 



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