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(a) negative forms, 
(b) interrogative forms, 
(c) passive forms, 
(d) forms for repeated action, 
(e) forms for continued action i forms for initiated action 
(/) forms for completed action ) being excluded, 
(g) imperative forms, 
(Ji) optative forms, 
( i ) potential forms, 
(j) conditional forms, so far as given modal rank, 
(Jc) and many other so-called modal forms. 
So far as these objections be well founded, they exhibit as 
a veritable medley, a bewildering multitude of verbal forms 
which, under the name of conjugation, quite too long have 
masqueraded as a system. 
RATIONAL SYSTEMS. 
Recognizing that it is vastly easier to disapprove an accepted 
classification, than to produce in its place another more worthy 
of acceptance, I wish the following suggestions to be taken 
strictly as suggestions only. 
i. 
If all the verbal forms remaining, after the omissions in¬ 
dicated in the preceding section, be admitted to a single genus? 
species and subspecies may be formed as follows: 
As some of these forms are verbal in the expression of central 
thought only, while the others are verbal in the expression 
of lateral thought only, the former may be known as central 
verbs, and the latter as lateral verbs. As the latter again at 
the same time serve as other parts of speech, and the former 
serve as verbs only, 70 the two might be also known, the former 
as pure or genuine verbs, and the latter as hybrids—or again 
70 The possibility of nominal verbs, etc., indicated on page 114, I do 
not now consider. 
