Latin verb facio, and its
supine/rictum, which signifies to make ,
to do or toenuse, enters in some form,
into the composition of more than
live hundred of our English words.—
The word pono , and its supine posi
tion, furnish 250 words ; plico 200 ;fe
ro and latum JOB ; speeio, 107 ; radio
and mission, 174; tenco ana tentum,
108 ; capeo and < opium, 197 ; tendo,
tentum. and tension, 162 , duco and due
turn, 150 ; lotjus , (from the Greek lan
guage,) 150; grapho, 152. These 12
words enter, in some shape, into the
the composition of nearly 2500 En»
giish words. From 154 Greek and
; Latin primitives, nearly 13,000 Eng
; iish words are derived, or are affected
jin their signification.— Analysis of
j Derivative words.
A Back Anterior to Our Own.—
; The late Sir David Brewster, in his
| very interesting work entitled ‘-More
Worlds than One,” in discussing the
geological condition of the earth, in~
quires, “But, who can tell what sleeps
beyond?” If we have followed the
omnipotent arm into the infinity of
space, may we not trace it under our
feet in remoter times, and in peeper
i cemeteries ? Another creation may
lie* beneath the earth’s granite pave
ment —more glorious creatures may
be emomed there. Ihe mortal coils
jof beings more lovely, more pure,
j more divine, than man, may } ot read
I to us the bumbling lesson that we
I have not been the first, and may not
| be ihe last of an intellectual race.
