The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1884-01-10

The old Latint term must have been ho-men-homen-
and the ho redundant, originally, and did not
belong the word, because the negation of homo was
not homo but memo, and was first nemen, and so
it runs-nemo, neminis, nemini, &c.
And does abominable come from ab-homo-repug-
nant to humanity?
Then look at the feminine of homo which is fe-
NINA and was at first eo to produce
and hence word fecundity. So feomina fe-
nina the producer of men, Our word feminine
is from that root-and women are feminine. Feo-men
and women one; for F, W and V cognate and
convertible letters, in all languages-as, vater-and
father.
1t may be noted a curious fact that ground and
man have the same root; in Latin humus, homo. Ho-
mo, man; humus, the ground; perhaps the words
tell the story that man came from the ground.
In old Greek, the same word meant speech and rea-
son-word and thought-lo-gos; it is logical to
speak and to reason.
Take the word regent-a ruler-a governor-and see
what a reach it has over region of languages.
The old Latin and rege, and the German recht
the French regir, the Hebrew raj, the Hndoo rajah
the Greek ra.
In Zealand, sumatra and the Sandwich Isands-oo-
raye.
Why, our pet word-riches-is from the same root
and is akin to rex-reach-region-and implies
extent of power and possessions.
So right-which wrong participle of wrung-or
wrested from right.
But how much better is the word than riches--is
wealth-when you look at the heart of the
w ealth belongs TO numerous but good family. The
good old Saxon weal-well wealth; heal = hale
health; so wealth means internal soundness-whole-
ness-and whoeness and holiness are not only etymo-
logically but theoloSically related. So riches is an
objective term, while wealth is subjective. One re-
lates the quality of the and the other to his
possessions.
Take the word cow, S representing an animal COM
to nearly all parts of the earth, and in old He
brew. gouah-a herd of cattle; in Greek, qua. yoke
of foxen in Sanscrit guva and ghau; in ancient Per-
irT Jnffar E0nc tn Enrpa Eth md
oddly enough, in New Zealand, where they have
cows, the word ken means the breastsor the milk
giving organ.
Now how will you attract your pupils attention to
such things?
Why, when he studies arithmetic, when he learns
his letters, when he studies geography every day you
have hundred chances to excite his mind to think.
10 analyze.
When the little six-year old learn his let
tiers, his first formal language lesson, let him know
what is the name of the thing he is about to learn
alphabet, alpha beta. Is he learning arithmetic?
show him, not because there may be any historic
truth in it, but simply to excite his mind to thought
the origin of the Arabic characters, 1, 2, 3, &C.
Here follow the Arabic characters, which have
not the type to reproduce.-ED.1
Is he studying geography? Let him that the
of places tell their founders their history and
their location. Vermont-a green mou untain Montee-
vide-I see mountaain-away down IN South Amer
lea; while down in Mexico there is town Albu-
Guerque-albu-q Observation-Disclosures while Saint Fran
CISCO Saint Augustine, Sacramento, Santa Rosa, and
of other towns the world tell that good
Catholics have brilded there. Buena Vista should
have good view Terra del Fuego was thought to
be the land of fire.
Why, taught school for years before thought
what Equator meant. Equa-tor-equal heat And
the Spanish name for Ecuador is country of equal
heat, and the Equator properly passes through it,
Tor is fire heat; torrere to burn. Torrid torch,
and torment-fre to the mind. (Thats hell, amt t?)
And volcano 10 n chimney Vulcan's smithy-
fire. When The child can't remember the great long
OF the Mediterranean Sea, tell him that 1t is in
the midst of lapd-a land-locked But think it
than that 1t is not only in media terras
40 its Shores but to the whole world as 1t was
known to man;when the named; but has always
been the middle of the world-the Hub of the uni
verse;
For around the shores of that little sea, sprang all
the languages all the religions all the arts, and uses,
and sciences, that the whole world knows to-day.
Egypt, and Arabia, and Greece, and Rome, and
Mount sinai-all the shores of that Judaism,
Mohammedanism, Christianity, Painting, Sculpture,
Poetry, War, Arithmetic, Astrcnomy-and Christo-
pher Columbus-all came from that called the
middle of the world.
The name Chemistry is from Chemi, which was an
old name for Egypt.
Of course you will tell your pupils that Cancer and
Capricorn called Tropics because the old Greek
word tropikos, meant the turning place, and ano-
ther part of the verb is trepein- (but want
nearer acquaintance with that word.)
Perhaps as common a word, with which 10 excite
the mind of pupils and lead them to look under
The shell. is NEWS-word from North, East, West
South-NEWS.
who once, upon my asking him why they called the
book was just beginning to study arithmetic, an
swered me gravey, because that its name.'
Well that poor fellow has grav-tated into the grave
and his body likely has enriched the word-more than
his mind ever did. Arith-metc--the measure of
numbers. And in looking at the of numbers,
there is as strange and striking coincidence,
there is in language and that furnishes strong argu
ment for the origin of the human race from
mon cradle.
had any art of counting, computing by numbers,
the decimal system has been used. Wherever hu-
man community has existed with sufficient intelli-
gence to accumulate and compute, they have never
stopped short Of exceed ten in their first series
and invariably break off at ten, and make second
ries begin with the "a three
and to the end of the second series, ten and
then begin third series.
Now why have not some peoples broken off at num-
Der five and others proceeded to fifteen before begin
ming second series? Or odder yet, why had none of
them simply one single ascending series, with
name and new number for each ascending unit? Can
the common use of the decimal system have origina
ted in the simple method of counting on the ten fir
gers, and when the fingers counted once around
mark it once around, 10, then 90 twice around? Or
the tens method part of the gift to man?
The ancfents believed that the axe, the yoke, the
plough and the distaf, fell bodily from Heaven,
their origin lost in the mists of antiquity So the
origin of tens is older by than the ten command
ments.
In the study of language we find that words have
souls as well as bodies and we like living
ter than dead one.
often think of the first word ever the inside
of. had begun the study of Latin, and one Sunday
at church, old Father Turner said, Receive the Ben
ediction.''
Till then, Benediction was just the name of cere
mony to wind up the meeting, and they might as well
have called it maledction, for all the word meaut
then. But all at once got acquainted with the soul
of the word and anG benefit and bene-
factor, told stories to me. Male-factor, male
diction, ma-aria-bad air. So it may be- that bodies
that move in the same plane planets; and that
miser is miserable; that sncere--sins-
without wax-pure honey--or it may mean honest,
the old Roman furniture dealer who did not fill cracks
in his work with wax and paint it over.
Dextrous is right handed, and ambi-dextrors, both
right hands, but why should call the left-handed
person sinister? You might get left on that.
Sometimes a word carries the history of the igno-
of the past. We yet say arteries, although
friends, the doctors, know that they filed
with blood, instead of being "air-ways as the name
implies.
The names Caesar, Kaiser and Gar, show close re-
lationship and common ancestry-Iatin, German,
Russian.
Look at the names of many things and they
their faces the history of the thing.
The Arabs of the middle ages were the arithmeti-
clans, the astronomers, the chemists and the
chants of the world, and yet their old words.
Algebra, Almanac Cypher, Zero, Zenith, Alcohol
alchemy alembic tariff, magazine, cotton and dixir
Pagan and peasant from the same root-and
page.
Mystery is derived from mu, meaning closed lips,
and expect music is the opposite.
Astonished means thunderstruck, from attonare.
Bankrupt means broken bench. In about 1900 the
Lombard merchants exposed their goods for sale
benches in the open market places. When their
number failed all the others upon him. drove him
from the market place, and broke his bench.
A Scotch laird named Hume whose estate wascaed
The Bog-in the time of William & Anne-was noted
his marvellous yarns. So the Scotch grew to say