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great importance; but, from some little enquiry into 
this subject, I am apt to think, it would not be so 
difficult as it may appear to be at first sight, and 
would therefore present no insurmountable obstacle 
to the formation of an universal character. 
Another terminational sign conyerts an adjec- 
tive, however formed, into a word expressive of 
the quality denoted by such adjective, abs/ractly 
substantiated; thus— 
InGreek, ayaboc, ayaborus: mpaoc, mpeortus: 
aytos, atyLorns. 
Latin, Bonus, bonitas; lenis, lenitas; sanctus, 
sanctitas. 
Russ, blagoi, blagost ; smeernoi, smeernost ; 
sevyatot, sevyatost. 
German, giitig, gitigheit ; gelind, gelindigheit s 
heilig, helighett. 
English, good, goodness; meek, meekness ; holy, 
holiness. 
French, bon, bonté; —- — saint, sainteié. 
As in the formation of adjectives, so in this case 
also, there are in all languages more ways of form- 
ing this class of words than that which I have ex- 
emplified. There is in every tongue, I believe, 
a predominant mode; and I believe the examples 
I have given are instances of this mode in the, 
tongues from which they are taken. In Latin, we 
have many terminations in ‘udo and tza: thus, for- 
