CLVI ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT [eth, asn, 20 



111 the derivation of new terms with the progress of culture, 

 resort was had to these classical languages for the new terms 

 which were needed, and scholars developed a system of rules 

 which were expressed or implied as regulations for the deriva- 

 tion of new words. One of these rules was a prohibition upon 

 the compounding of words from the elements of two languages; 

 thus Greek and Latin elements should not be compounded 

 in one word. As many of our words are not immediately 

 derived from Greek or from Latin, the same rule was sought 

 to be enforced with them all, and the words not com})ounded 

 with the authority of these conventions were considei'ed to be 

 barbarous or unscholarly. Most new words are not produced 

 by scholars, but by the common people in everyday speech, 

 and thus a commonplace dialect is produced which scholars 

 are ultimately forced to adopt in order that they may be 

 popularly understood. Yet there is a sentiment, whether 

 well-founded or not, against the coining of new terms from 

 other tongues than the Latin and the Greek, and against 

 the mixture of different linguistic roots. Sometimes these 

 conditions are carried so far that the new term must be made 

 according to the methods practiced in the Greek or the Latin 

 at some particular time in the history of those languages. 



Comjiaring those languages which exhibit the most highly 

 differentiated parts of speech with the languages of savagery, 

 we ai'e able to discover the course of evolution in the past, 

 and we may with some confidence predict their further evolu- 

 tion and even surmise the outcome — that is, the nature of the 

 ideal language to which all languages are tending. The vast 

 integration of tongues which has already been accomplished 

 tells of a time when there will be but one luiiuan language as 

 oral speech, and the state which will be reached in the special- 

 ization of parts of speech may be stated as a surmise in the 

 following way: 



There will be primary and secondary parts of speech. The 

 primary parts of speech will be the subject, the veii), and the 

 object, which will be distinguished as words. The secondary 

 elements will be definers. The definers of tlie subject will be 

 adjectives, which will be words, plirases, or subordinate sen- 



