. An exegesis of English syntax . as the new system is, children can never understandit! Admitting it to be so ; and, what then ? Is it better forchildren to learn error, absurdity, and contradiction thanto learn truth which they cannot clearly comprehend inchildhood!? Is it better for a child to be taught that five,and jive are one hundred because while a mere child he cannot understand that^ye, and five are ten units !? If the oldsystem is ivrong, can it from this fact be. understood betterthan a system which is right ? But let us see whether thenew system is founded upon such very abstruse

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. An exegesis of English syntax . as the new system is, children can never understandit! Admitting it to be so ; and, what then ? Is it better forchildren to learn error, absurdity, and contradiction thanto learn truth which they cannot clearly comprehend inchildhood!? Is it better for a child to be taught that five, and jive are one hundred because while a mere child he cannot understand that^ye, and five are ten units !? If the oldsystem is ivrong, can it from this fact be. understood betterthan a system which is right ? But let us see whether thenew system is founded upon such very abstruse truth.In the inceptive stage of the system, the words of a sentenceare divided into cormes, and clades. This division is madeupon the trunk relation of some words, and the branch re-lation of others. clade, cormc. clade. clade. That tree is high.The child that can not see that the word, tree, is thecorme, and that that, is, and high are its clades, would notbe able to distinguish the corme from the clades, and the 108 ETYMOLOGY.. clades from the corme of the following figure of a tree:The child of commoncapacity, would beable to see that theword, tree, is the trunk, the cormos part of thiscut. He would alsobe able to see that theother words in theabove gnomod, are asmuch clades, or bran-ches, as are parts b, c, and d, of this figure. d c a b Very high trees fell.The word, very, isa clonocla&e, belong-ing to high. Branch, d, is a cZoftoclade. AcZottoclade, then, is aclade which is attached, not to the trunk, to the corme, butto another clade as is seen in the connection of clade, d, with clade, c, in the frame-work of this gnomod: d c a b Very high trees fell. A band is called a &a£band because it is attached to ahat. And a clade is called a clonoclside because it is con-jected to a clonos, a clade. [clonos, a clade.] Upon the above figure there are two cormeclades, andone clonoclade. But, says the vexed teacher who is en-deavouring to close the door of the new house because 1have