18 LOGOS AND ITS DERIVATIVES. 



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or Termination, in English and several other lan- 

 guages, to mean Science, in the sense of a Discourse 

 or Treatise about the subject named by the root- 

 word to which it is so added. Geology, for instance, 

 is derived from the Greek word ge, meaning THE 

 EARTH, and Logos, and means therefore a Discourse 

 about the Earth, as Geography means a writing 

 about the Earth, from the same ge and graphein, TO 

 WRITE. Numerous similar derivatives will imme- 

 diately occur to the mind, without specification. (The 

 g of ge was originally hard as in the English go, but 

 has been softened by usage in English to the sound 



of./)- 



21. It will be noticed that Ge and Logos would, 



alone, make Ge-logy and not Ge-o-logy. The o at the 

 middle of the word is introduced for the sake of 

 euphony merely, or to make the sound of the word 

 more agreeable, and is denominated in the technical- 

 ity of Etymology, the connecting-vowel. These de- 

 tails belong to the process of word-building which 

 will receive a new and remarkable expansion in im- 

 mediate connection with this new Science of the 

 Universe, and, in part, further on in the present 

 work. 



22. While a Science is thus named etymologically 

 as a Discourse about some given subject, and while 

 it is really that, it is still something more than a 

 mere Discourse. It is not every discourse, or every 

 kind of talk about a subject, which is the Science of 

 that subject. The Science of a Subject, or of any 

 Domain or Department of Being is, on the contrary, 



