Some learned writers have felt disconcerted when after tracing words to their source, they have found nothing but roots with general meanings, such as to go, to move, to run, to do; however, it is by means of these vague, pale conceptions that language has obtained the material for an entire language. The Aryan root _ar_ signified originally to go, to send, to advance, to proceed, going regularly, to stir. Applied to the stirring of the soil, it took the meaning of ploughing; in Latin _ar-are_, in Greek _ar-oun_, in Irish _ar_, in Lithuanian _ar-ti_, in Russian _ora-ti_; this root, from its meaning of advancing regularly, was the name of the plough; one derivative was applied to the cattle fit for ploughing, and also to the labourer. _Ar_ was also used for the ploughing of the sea, or rowing, and was found in the words rower and rudder. The Latin word _ævum_, originally from _i_, to go, became the name of time, age; and its derivative _æviternus_, _æturnus_ was made to express eternity. It was by a poetical fiat that the Greek _probata_, which originally meant no more than things walking forward, became in time the name of cattle. In French, the word _meuble_ means literally anything that is movable, but it became the name of chairs, tables, wardrobes, etc. In this way we see the power of language, which, out of a few simple elements, has created names sufficient to express the infinite aspects of nature. The ramifications of the Aryan root _Dâ_ give a good idea of the process. Thus _Dâ_ = to give, is in the Sanscrit _dădāmi_, I give; in Latin, _do_; in Old Slavonic, _da-mi_; in Lithuanian, _du-mi_; in French, _donner_ and _pardonner_; in Latin, _trado_, to give over; in Italian, _tradire_; in French, _trahir_, _trahison_; in Latin again, _reddo_, to give back; in French, _rendre_ and _rente_. Side by side with the root _Dâ_, there is another root also _Dâ_, exactly the same in all outward appearance; it consists of _D_ + _Â_, but is totally distinct from the former. While from the former we have in Sanscrit, _dâ-tram_, a gift, we have from the latter _dâ´-tram_, a sickle. The meaning of the second root is to cut, to carve; the difference is shown by the accent remaining on the radical syllable in _dâ´-tram_, _i.e._, the cutting (active); whilst it leaves the radical syllable in _dâ-trám_, _i.e._, what is given (passive).