376 APPENDIX.~-On GREEK ANALOGT. 



M Compremon, conjoining or compreflive force. 



N Cleaving or fplitting force. 



E Strong or violent friction. 



II Adhefion, adhefive force. 



P Fluency, flowing force. 



2 Tremor, making force. 



T Tenfion, ftretching force. 



<I> Eruptive force, force by which interpofed obftacles are bro- 

 ken through. 



X Opening or disjoining force, force by which two objects 

 once united are made to feparate. 



¥ Smooth or lefs violent friction. 



If it be objected, that fome of the ideas thus fuppofed to be 

 denoted by the radical components of the language, are too ab- 

 ftract and metaphyseal to be allowed fuch a place, I would ob- 

 ferve, that in ftating thefe general fignifications, I by no means 

 fuppofe the general idea to have been in view when the various 

 words were formed ; but that the generalization arofe merely 

 from the repeated application of the fame found to exprefs indi- 

 vidual objects and individual feelings, concurring in the fame 

 common quality ; for in fact it is rather the expremon than the 

 idea which has a metaphyseal afpect, moft of the ideas being de- 

 rived from objects in their nature fufEciently obvious and fre- 

 quently occurring. 



Should it be thought abfurd to fuppofe that all the numerous 

 ideas which fpeech is intended to exprefs, could ever originate 

 and fpread out from the few and fcanty fources now laid down, 

 I fhall only reply, that if we can trace in fact the whole body of 

 a copious and expreffive language, as emanating from thefe pri- 

 mitive roots, and can find avery idea borrowing its expreflion ulti- 

 mately from one or other of thefe radical founds, we fhall have 

 an argument from fact of the truth of the fyftem, which no rea- 

 foning from improbabilities can pofhbly overturn. 



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