It is further not unworthy of note that, except where directly required in treating of verbal categories, nearly all of the enormous number of illustrations which Dr. Noreen chooses for his points, are _nouns_, names of _things_, and vary rarely verbal forms, words of action and _doing_. But it is simply a fact that all the _potency_ of language is in the verb, and almost all there is of language, in a philosophic sense, lies there. The verb is the bridge of communication and action _upon_ external things, just as is language itself, going out of man. And it is also noteworthy that the recognition of this position of the verb, together with these other matters of which we are speaking, seems nearer at hand and clearer to those students who are led beyond Aryan languages to the study of American and Asiatic, especially Central and Northern Asiatic. For instance, G. v. d. Gabelentz, _Die Sprachwissenschaft_, and other works. [53-*] It was not until after this paper was already in type that my attention was directed to the complete agreement of this and the succeeding sentences with the following passage in _The Secret Doctrine_, by H. P. Blavatsky, London, 1888, vol. II, page 199. After saying that some of the Atlantean races spoke the agglutinative languages, the passage continues: “While the ‘cream’ of the Fourth Race _gravitated_ more and more toward the apex of physical and intellectual evolution, _thus_ leaving as an heirloom to the nascent Fifth (the Aryan) Race the inflectional, highly developed languages, the agglutinative decayed and remained as a fragmentary fossil idiom, scattered now, and nearly limited to the aboriginal tribes of America.” Note the words I have italicized, marking the evolution of the “inflectional” languages as an attendant phenomenon on physico-intellectual evolution, compare the passage with von Humboldt’s thesis, already quoted, that the incorporative quality denotes an exaltation of the imaginative over the ratiocinative processes of mind in its users, and further with the surviving genius of Chinese, the type of monosyllabic languages, and the agreement is evident. Von Humboldt, however, did not carry out so fully the archaeological results, for which indeed the materials were in his day still lacking. See also other passages in _The Secret Doctrine_. [61-*] _Traité de l’Astronomie Indienne et Orientale_, Disc. Prél. et seq.