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The Creator, the Upholder, the Eedeemer, takes hold of this- 

 word, rf^n brought into being by His creature man, and 



claims it as a fit expression through all time, yea, through all 

 eternity, of Him Who Is and Was and Is to Come, minting anew 

 the well-known sound Jehovah, which expressed a past and 

 forgotten revelation, the Maker, or He Who will Make (which 

 appears to be the original meaning of the word),* which in the 

 meanwhile had been superseded by "^^tl? God Almighty or 

 All Sufficient, and h^, the Most High God, into Tl)p^,, 



Jehovah, H^Ht^ ^tT^f^ Tl^^r}^, 1 Am that I Am, The Being m 

 Whom all other beings have their being, the name expressing 

 an inexhaustible fullness which He shall be revealing in promise 

 and fulfilment to His people and through His people to all ages. 



It has been by comparison of the philological development of 

 v^TT't ^ pronominal root, by the help of ancient Egyptian, 

 which forms a sort of halfway house, with the Indo-European 

 pronouns that I think I have been able to trace and identify 

 the origin and meaning of that ancient pronoun and many of 

 the verbs " to be " in the different languages : " function " in the- 

 pronoun taking the place of " sematology " or meaning in the 

 verb. It would take too long to tell the different steps of the 

 investigation, but many philological derelicts have been picked 

 up by the way, reasons for the variations of many irregular 

 verbs have come to light, while the absolutely convincing proof 

 of the whole lies in this, that the deeper and more thorough the 

 research the more thorough the interpenetration of pronouns and 

 roots is seen to be. Just to mention one far-reaching example :l 

 The old feminine ending, that of the parent language, was in the 

 Indo-European separated for use as a neuter, but the Semitic 

 usage of the construct state which brought back the th or t 

 made this impossible in Semitic, hence there was arrested 

 development in this direction and Semitic languages have nO' 

 neuter. This very fact, however, has preserved for us a proof 

 of their original identity with Indo-European. Thus these 

 discoveries in philology widen our basis of comparison much as 

 in astronomy the base-line of measurement was lengthened by 

 discov^eries in that science. 



What I should like to do in the remaining tim^e at my disposal 

 would be to plead for a new term for the criticism which follows. 



* Cf. " Essays," 7 S.I.E., Research, etc., p. 2. 

 t Cf. "Essays," 7 S.I.E., Research, etc., p. 2. 

 + Cf. " Essays," 6 S.I.E., Research, etc., p. 2. 



