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doubt not, as a blended whole. But the installment-plan of 
thought-delivery by words compels the secondary recognition 
of this blended whole in detail as consisting, say, of persons and 
a going—that is, two constituents or terms; and these must 
still maintain in mind their mutual belonging; rather, one is 
felt to belong with the other, or to “have to do with” it; there 
is felt in short to hold between them a relation. This relation— 
hinted by the statement of the grammars, that the noun is sub¬ 
ject of the verb—I choose to recognize as rather that of actor 
to his action. To exhibit this relation very plainly in trans¬ 
lation, I might choose the expression “All perform (or all 
accomplish) going” or even “All are going.” But I accept the 
usual “Ajil go,” in which however it seems to me the said re¬ 
lation is a part of what is meant by “go;” and I suppose it 
also to have been a part of what was meant by “eunt.” Com¬ 
pleting thus the number of ideas necessary for construction of 
a thought, I do not feel the need of any object, be it cognate 
or—if you prefer it—innate, for the verb. Accordingly I 
am not tempted by “All go a journey” or “All go a going.” 
That I have not read presumably excessive meaning into 
“eunt,” may be hinted by the sentence “Horses advertise,” 
which I imagine stirs you to the question “What have horses 
to do with advertising?”—or, with more distinctness, “How 
can advertising be the act of horses ?”—an inquiry which as¬ 
sumes on my part an intention to declare, between the horses 
and the advertising, the relation of an actor to an action of 
his own. Analogously “Omnes eunt” shall be held, as in¬ 
dicated, to express an actor, the relation of the actor to his 
action, and the action. 
The exact reverse of this trio—or, say, the same idea-series 
posed in the opposite order of succession—is the action (going), 
the (necessarily reversed) relation of the action to its actor, 
and the actor. Accordingly any form of a verb which ex¬ 
presses this relation, shall be ranked as the passive of what¬ 
ever form of that verb expresses the (corresponding proverse) 
relation of actor to his action. Thus, in the present instance, 
any verb which expresses the relation of “going” to its own 
