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origin as those of other verbs; and we doubt if it would command
general acquiescence to say that "hath" was a compound of "have hath."
But these are probably foolish doubts, only showing the small progress
of our scientific enlightenment; and we feel assured that they would
occur to no one who was once fully imbued with Mr Kavanagh's
principles.

A similar theory is applied by Mr Kavanagh with equal success to the
Latin system of conjugation; but we think it better to refer our
readers to the book itself, than weaken its effect by any attempt at
an abstract of it. We cannot, however, resist quoting Mr Kavanagh's
account of the advantages to which his theories directly tend.

"And this inquiry has led me to the most important of all my
discoveries; since it not only showed me the original of the
endings of the Latin verbs, but also those of the several
declensions of Latin nouns, adjectives, pronouns, participles,
&c., with their several cases, genders, numbers, &c. And this
knowledge will not only apply to the Latin language, but of
course to all the languages in the world. From this I have been
also led to discover the real nature of a pronoun, and how words
have been made in the beginning of time, and how they have
increased from a single letter, or at most from two, to all which
they have at present: by which means we may see the state of
languages at different periods of the world, even such as they
must have been ages before the building of the tower of Babel;
which knowledge will, it is presumed, throw great light on the
ancient history of the world, since men must, in the composition
of words, have ever made allusion to things already known, and
such as might serve to explain the words they made. Thus is it
even in our own times, and thus has it ever been. I intend
towards the end of this work to give numerous instances of how
words were at first formed, and the various forms they bore at
different times; so that no doubt may remain on any man's mind,
either as to the truth of this, the most important part of my
discovery, or as to the advantages which may, from our following
it up, arise from it."

In pursuing this interesting subject, Mr Kavanagh shows the important
part in etymology played by the Latin verb _esse_.

"Nothing of this has, however, been known. The greatest