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■re nata, of all the more complex gramma-
tical relations of disciplined thinking, and
of the perfected speech of educated men.
We know that the Locative case is ideally
the most primitive, some hold that actually
it is the oldest, of all Indo-European case-
endings. Even so does this idea of the
relations of things in space thus gradually
extend its scope, till it embraces and
regulates our grammatical contrivances for
expressing all possible relations of things
to one another. Nay, this idea of the
relations of things in space grows gradually
into some dawning conception of the rela-
tion of deeds in time. And so, in due time,
are evolved from this small beorinninor the
endless forms of various self-modifying
relations, arising out of my multiplying
environments — material, social, and moral
— as in my own person doing, owning, ac-
cumulating, suffering, giving and receiving,
influenced and influencing, in the multiform
exchanofe of civilised human life.
M. Salomon Reinach, in his Manual de
Philologie, p. 144, goes so far as confi-