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the faculties is common to all, so we may con- 
clude will be the term to express that use. Down 
from the source of language, a root so essential 
may be expected to have flowed in most, if not 
all its channels. Now we know, that the Gothic 
and Teutonic families have derived their speech 
from beyond the Indus, and it is there in its 
treasures that we must seek for the primitive 
root, the trunk from which the word has branched 
off. Accordingly in the Sanscrit, the oldest of 
the Indian tongues we find “véda,” in the 
Hebrew “yadah,’ in the Gothic “ vaitan,” 
in the Greek cide, dé, Dw—from the last, of 
which in a restricted sense, the Latins obtained 
by their mode of pronouncing the digamma 
“video,” to see——all which words correspond with 
our ‘“ witan,” to know. Then in the German 
is wissen, in the Danish is ‘‘ veed,” in the 
Icelandic “vita,” “vissi,” &c. 
To connect one word with another as before, 
we will next select the verb ‘“‘deman,” “‘ demde,” 
“gedemed, to judge, doom, &c. We still use 
this verb as ‘“‘to deem.” We also have ‘‘ doom,” 
the result of judgment, the award, punishment, 
&c. In the Isle of Man, a judge is termed a 
“‘dempster.’ In compound words, “dom” is still 
