Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 Excerpt: ... going on. When we say John/ walk/ we give orders for something to take place; viz. the action of walking. We do not say that the action of walking is positively taking place, or going to take place. We only deliver an order that it should do so. When we say if John walk fast, he will fatigue himself, we use the word walk in a third sense. We do not say that the action of walking is taking place, or has taken place, or will take place. Neither do we deliver an order that it may take place. We say, however, that if it do take place, something else will take place also; viz. that the person who causes it to take place will fatigue himself. Now in this case there is the idea of conditions and contingencies. John's fatigue is contingent upon his walking fast. In John begins to walk, the word walk is in a different sense from any of the preceding; for it depends neither upon John, nor upon any word like if. It depends upon begins. In John walks, the word walks is in the Indicative Mood. In John I walk I the word walk is in the Imperative Mood. The word Imperative is derived from the Latin word impero = / command. In if John walk fast, he will fatigue himself, the word walk is in the Conjunctive Mood. In this case there is conjoined with the proposition in question another proposition. He will fatigue himself is one proposition; John walks fast is another. The word if connects the two, and this connection changes the mood of the word walks; which becomes walk. From this fact the mood is called Conjunctive; from the Latin word conjungo = I conjoin, or join together. In John begins to walk, the verb walk merely states what the action is that John begins to perform. And this is an action without a direct agent. That to walk is connected with John is true. The connec...
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