And let me say, without attempting to bring back school into these lectures which are out of school, that, seeking to do this, we might add an interest to our researches in the lexicon and the dictionary which otherwise they could never have; that taking such words, for example, as ἐκκλησία, or παλιγγενεσία, or εὐτραπελία, or σοφιστής, or σχολαστικός, in Greek; as ‘religio’, or ‘sacramentum’, or ‘urbanitas’, or ‘superstitio’, in Latin; as ‘libertine’, or ‘casuistry’{226}, or ‘humanity’, or ‘humorous’, or ‘danger’, or ‘romance’, in English, and endeavouring to trace the manner in which one meaning grew out of and superseded another, and how they arrived at that use in which they have finally rested (if indeed before our English words there is not a future still), we shall derive, I believe, amusement, I am sure, instruction; we shall feel that we are really getting something, increasing the moral and intellectual stores of our minds; furnishing ourselves with that which may hereafter be of service to ourselves, may be of service to others--than which there can be no feeling more pleasurable, none more delightful. I shall be glad and thankful, if you can feel as much in regard of that lecture, which I now bring to its end{227}. {FOOTNOTES} {198} [‘Frampold’, peevish, perverse (_Merry Wives of Windsor_, 1598, ii, 2, 94) is supposed to be another form of ‘from-polled’, as if ‘wrong-headed’. ‘Garboil’, a tumult or hubbub, was originally _garboyl_, and came from old French _garbouil_ (Italian _garbuglio_). ‘Brangle’, a brawl, stands for ‘brandle’ from Old Fr. _brandeler_, akin to ‘brandish’.] {199} [‘Dutch’ i.e. Teutonic, Mid. High-German _diutsch_, old High-German _diut-isk_ from _diot_, people, and so the people-ish or popular language the mother-tongue, founded on a primitive _teuta_, ‘people’. See Kluge _s.v. Deutsch_.] {200} So in Herrick’s _Electra_: “More white than are the whitest creams, Or moonlight _tinselling_ the streams”. {201} [Hence also the epidemic of malefic power supposed to be air-borne, ‘influenza’.] {202} See Holinshed’s _Chronicles_, vol. iii, pp. 827, 1218; Ann. 1513, 1570. {203} _Fairy Queen_, vi, 7, 27; cf. v. 3, 37. {204} [The two words are intimately related, ‘king’, contracted for _kining_ (Anglo-Saxon _cyn-ing_), ‘son of the kin’ or ‘tribe’, one of the people, cognate with _cynde_, true-born, native, ‘kind’, and _cynd_, nature ‘kind’, whence ‘kindly’, natural.] {205} See Sir W. Scott’s edition of Swift’s _Works_, vol. ix, p. 139. {206} θηριακή, from θηρίον, a designation given to the viper, see Acts xxviii, 4. ‘Theriac’ is only the more rigid form of the same word, the scholarly, as distinguished from the popular, adoption of it. Augustine (_Con. duas Epp. Pelag._ iii, 7): Sicut fieri consuevit antidotum etiam de serpentibus contra venena serpentum.