APPENDIX.— On GREEK ANALOGY. 371 



that ingenious as many of the obfervations undoubtedly are, 

 there feems reafbn to queflion whether the analyfis may not, af- 

 ter all, be found too vague and general to lead to a fatisfaclory 

 refult. 



Though I am fenfible of thefe deficiencies in the manner in 

 which the different writers I have mentioned have exhibited the 

 fyflem of Greek analogy, I cannot but think, at the fame time, 

 that the fyflem itfelf, if fairly delineated, is by no means an ar- 

 bitrary creature of fancy, but has a real and folid foundation in 

 the nature and progrefs of the human intellect. Connected as 

 this fubject is with many parts of the foregoing difquifitions, I 

 hope it will not be going too far out of my way to fubjoin to 

 this paper fome remarks in fupport of that opinion, together 

 with a few curfory hints, both of the grounds on which I con- 

 ceive this fyftem of analogy to reft, and the mode in which it 

 might probably be followed out with advantage, to elucidate the 

 real nature and progrefs of the language. Such a detail will 

 form the beft explanation of my reafons for trufting to this guide 

 fo much as I have done, in the progrefs of thefe inquiries into 

 the radical fenfe of the prepofitions. 



In entering upon this difcuffion, we may without hefitation 

 adopt in part the Hemflerhufian fyftem of Greek analogy, as 

 detailed by Linnep, and partially caught by Lord Monboddo ; 

 a fyflem which may be regarded as an approximation to the truth, 

 though requiring much both of correction and addition to ren- 

 der it complete. 



According to this fyflem, the radical primitives in the Greek 

 language are the five duads «<y, so, to, 00, and vo ; — all of them 

 verbs, and all fignifying the fame thing, viz. the general idea of 

 motion, " I move" " / make to move," or " / ceafe motions" by the 

 addition of confonants to thefe duads, the Signification is modi- 

 fied and defined in any manner that may be required for ex- 

 prefling the various ideas and defires of the mind. Hence 



every 



