242 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. 
The present is perhaps the most convenient moment to ex¬ 
amine the trnth of Grammar’s dictum (noted on page 222) 
that the subjunctive is used in dependent clauses expressing 
what is feared. Truth presumably there is in it (although the 
subjunctive is sometimes displaced by the infinitive), or it 
would not so long have been tolerated. This truth may be ex¬ 
hibited as follows: 
A genuine dependent clause is ipso facto a lateral clause. 
Tor, as previously argued, only an independent clause—a clause 
of self-sufficient importance—can be truly central, though two 
clauses which have a simultaneous common factor may both 
be central, in which case one of them, by reason of its inter¬ 
locking with the other, exhibits a merely formal resemblance 
to a lateral clause; e. g., “I have a letter from my wife, who 
is in New York.” (Compare pages 127-128.) 
A genuine lateral clause—for instance, a clause which is only 
a means to the end of clearly exhibiting a central thought (e. g., 
U I have a letter from my daughter ivho is in New York ”—not 
the other daughter)—a clause, in other words, which cooper¬ 
ates with a central clause in forming a centro-lateral total 
(not bi-central)—is not asserted, except as indicated on pages 
129-134. That is, its verb cannot be genuinely indicative. It 
may, according to the architecture of thought and the means 
of indicating architecture, appear in any of the unassorted 
(i. e. the verbal hybrid) forms. It may in short take any non- 
indicative form. Given the architecture of thought exhibited 
by the illustration “I fear he will come,” the lateral clause may 
employ any verbal noun—the substantive subjunctive or any 
other. 
The fact that classic Latin ordinarily employs no con¬ 
struction parallel to (“I fear him to come” or) “I fear his 
coming,” restricting itself to the equivalent of “I fear that 
(or lest) he come,” is explainable by influences discussed on 
pages 224-226. 
Accordingly, supposing no verbal noun to be available, ex¬ 
cept the substantively used subjunctive ; and assuming thought- 
architecture of what is feared, to be of a type which cannot 
