[Findlater's footnote 69: _Nevertheless_ means literally, "not less by (or for) that." In this compound _the_ is not the article, but an adverb, in Ang. Sax. _thy_, "by that much," and corresponds to Lat. _eo_ in the expression _eo minus_.--_F._] [Findlater's footnote 70: _Yet_ is of pronominal origin like Gr. [Greek: i)/ti], Ger. _jetzt_, and has no connection with the verb _get_.--_F._] [Findlater's footnote 71: _Still_ seems to be the adjective _still_, quiet, used adverbially, and having the force of "undisturbed, uninterrupted by that."--_F._] A few more cases will exemplify all that is material in the marking power of the conjunctions. "We study, _that_, we may be learned." The connexion here, again, is that of cause and effect. "We study:" "We may be learned," are the two predications, between which the connexion in question is to {221} be marked. The demonstrative pronoun performs the service. "We may be learned, _that_ we study:" we study; what? to be learned. "John is more learned than James is eloquent." The conjunction here is a relative term, and consists of the two words, _more than_. The two predications are, "John is learned," "James is eloquent." The connexion between them is, that they are the two parts of a comparison turning upon the point of greatness in degree. The two words _more than_, suffice to mark that connexion. _Than_ is but a mode of spelling and pronouncing _that_, which use has appropriated to this particular case. "John is learned, more that (that being the more, the other of course is the less), James is eloquent."[72] [Findlater's footnote 72: _Than_ is only another form of _then_, and marks that the one comes after the other, and is therefore inferior.--_F._] _As_, obsolete as a pronoun, only exists as a conjunction. It is a word of the same import with _that_. The following will suffice in exemplification of the marking property which it retains. "Virgil was _as_ great a poet as Cicero an orator." The two predications are, "Virgil was a great poet," "Cicero was a great orator." They also are connected as the two parts of a comparison, turning upon the point of equality in degree. _As_, or _that_, suffices to mark that connexion. "Virgil was a great poet," _that_ (namely great) Cicero was an orator. We shall see afterwards, in the composition of RELATIVE TERMS, that every such term consists of two words, or the same word taken twice. The conjunction here is a relative term, and consists {222} of two words, namely, _as_, or _that_, taken twice. "Virgil was a poet great, that that, an orator was Cicero;" the first _that_ marking _great as poet_; the second _that_, marking _great as orator_.[73] [Findlater's footnote 73: _As_ is an oblique case of the demonstrative root _sa_, and is equivalent to "in this (degree);" and the nature of the connection is this: Virgil was a poet great in this degree; Cicero was an orator great in this degree; that is, the degree of greatness was the same in both.--_F._]