languages even while it has been employed in some of the mightiest works of imagination which the world has ever seen{197}. What, it may be asked, is the meaning and explanation of all this? It is that at certain earlier periods of a nation’s life its genius is synthetic, and at later becomes analytic. At earlier periods all is by synthesis; and men love to contemplate the thing, and the mode of the thing, together, as a single idea, bound up in one. But a time arrives when the intellectual obtains the upper hand of the imaginative, when the tendency of those that speak the language is to analyse, to distinguish between these two, and not only to distinguish but to divide, to have one word for the thing itself, and another for the quality of the thing; and this, as it would appear, is true not of some languages only, but of all. {FOOTNOTES} {128} [Apparently a slip for ‘ebb’] {129} It is still used in prose as late as the age of Henry VIII; see the _State Papers_, vol. viii. p. 247. It was the latest survivor of a whole group or family of words which continued much longer in Scotland than with us; of which some perhaps continue there still; these are but a few of them; ‘wanthrift’ for extravagance; ‘wanluck’, misfortune; ‘wanlust’, languor; ‘wanwit’, folly; ‘wangrace’, wickedness; ‘wantrust’ (Chaucer), distrust, [Also ‘wan-ton’, devoid of breeding (_towen_). Compare German _wahn-sinn_, insanity, and _wahn-witz_.] {130} We must not suppose that this still survives in ‘_gir_falcon’; which wholly belongs to the Latin element of the language; being the later Latin ‘gyrofalco’, and that, “a _gyrando_, quia diu _gyrando_ acriter prædam insequitur”. {131} [‘Heft’, from ‘heave’ (_Winter’s Tale_, ii. 1, 45), is widely diffused in the Three Kingdoms and in America. See E.D.D. _s.v._] {132} “Some _hot-spurs_ there were that gave counsel to go against them with all their forces, and to fright and terrify them, if they made slow haste”. (Holland’s _Livy_, p. 922.) {133} _State Papers_, vol. vi. p. 534. {134} [‘Malinger’, French _malingre_ (mistakenly derived above), stands for old French _mal-heingre_ (maliciously or falsely ill, feigning sickness), which is from Latin _male aeger_, with an intrusive _n_--Scheler.] {135} [To which the late Boer War contributed many more, such as ‘kopje’, ‘trek’, ‘slim’, ‘veldt’, etc.] {136} The only two writers of whom I am aware as subsequently using this word are, both writing in Ireland and of Irish matters, Spenser and Swift. The passages are both quoted in Richardson’s _Dictionary_. [‘Bawn’ stands for the Irish _ba-dhun_ (not _bábhun_, as in N.E.D.), or _bo-dhun_, literally ‘cow-fortress’, a cattle enclosure (Irish _bo_, a cow). See P. W. Joyce, _Irish Names of Places_, 1st ser. p. 297.]