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ion, may be represented by the figure 8. Let us justify this valuation by citing these two lines of Racine: "The wave comes on, it breaks, _and_ vomits 'neath our eyes, Amid the floods of foam, a monster grim and dire." The ordinary reader would allow the conjunction _and_ to pass unperceived, because the word is not sonorous, and we accord oratorical effects only to sonorous words. But the man who sees the meaning fully, and who adds _and_, has said the whole. The other words are important, but everything is implied in this conjunction. Racine has not placed _and_ here to disjoin, but to unite. We give another example of the conjunction: Augustus says to Cinna: "Take a chair Cinna, _and_ in all things heed Strictly the law that I lay down for thee." Let us suppress the isolation and silence of the conjunction, and there is no more color. Augustus adds: "Hold thy tongue captive, _and_ if silence deep To thy emotion do some violence"-- Suppress the silence and isolation of the conjunction _and_, and how poor is the expression! In the fable of "The Wolf and the Dog:" "Sire wolf would gladly have attacked and slain him, _but_ it would have been necessary to give battle, _and_ it was now almost morning." The entire significance lies in the silence which follows the conjunctions. We speak of a sympathetic conjunction, and also of one denoting surprise or admiration; but this conjunction differs from the interjection, only in this respect: it rests upon the propositions and unites its terms. Like the interjection, it is of a synthetic and elliptic nature; it groups all the expressions it unites as interjectives. It is, then, from this point of view, exclamative. In the fable of "The Wolf and the Lamb," the wolf says: "This must be some one of your own race, _for_ you would not think of sparing me, you shepherds _and_ you dogs." Here is an interjective conjunction. Suppress the complaint after _for_, and there is no more effect. The conjunction is the _soul_ of the discourse. In the exclamation in "Joseph Sold by his Brethren," we again find an interjective conjunction. "Alas.......... _and_ The ingrates who would sell me!" Here the conjunction _and_ yields little to the interjection _alas_. It has fully as much value. _The Interjection in Relation to its Degree of Value._ The interjection has 9
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