text:  Mr Kavanagh is determined that the importance of his discovery shall lose nothing from his reluctance to put it in the strongest light:-- "If from having taken a view of the human mind different from any other hitherto taken and from having founded a rational principle in conformity with this view I can offer such a definition of words as may bear the strictest investigation and which all may understand; and if a child by adhering to this principle may be able to account for words with all their changes and variations and show them such as they must have been not only ages before the Bible and the Iliad had been written but even as they were at their very birth; then it will I dare hope be admitted that I shall not only have surmounted innumerable difficulties but have discovered the real science of languages