5 Dec r 1815

Chrestom or Language

I. May

1. I may perhaps strike if I will

2. Thou mayest if thou will

3. He may or it may strike him if he will

4. We may if we will

5. Ye may if ye will

6. They (persons or things) may

II. Can ( Perhaps is here occasionally applicable)

1. I can strike

2. Thou canst strike

3. He or it can strike

4. We can strike

5. Ye can strike

6. They (persons or things) can strike

III. MIGHT

1. I might perhaps strike

2. Thou mightest strike

3. He or it might strike

4. We might strike

5. Ye might strike

6. They might strike

IV. Could

1. I could perhaps strike

2. Thou couldest strike

3. He could strike

4. We could strike

5. Ye could strike

6. They could strike

V. Would

1. I would strike

2. Thou wouldst strike

3. He would strike

4. We would strike

5. Ye would strike

6. They would strike

Present liberty asserting or Uncertainty asserting

May signifies liberty and power but coupled with uncertainty as to the question whether it will be exerted or no or—applied to an event not considered as subject to human will—to the will of any person in question, uncertainty in regard to the fact of its taking place

Present power asserting

Hypothetical /Conditional/ liberty asserting

Conditional or Hypothetical power assert g

Conditional or Hypothetical volition or desire asserting

N.B. Would—and more decidedly would not have also a categorical /[...?]/ sense When Eurybiades struck, Themistocles would not strike i.e. he chose not to strike to abstain from striking

VI. Ought to

1. I ought to strike

2. Thou oughtest to strike

3. He ought to strike

4. We ought to strike

5. Ye ought to strike

6. They ought to strike

VII. Must

1. I must strike

2. Thou {mustest}? strike

3. He or it must strike

4. We must strike

5. Ye must strike

6. They must strike

VIII. Should

1. I should strike

2. Thou shouldest strike

3. He should strike

4. We should strike

5. Ye should strike

6. They should strike

May not [etc etc]

Stronger /Stricter/ moral obligation asserting—present or future absolute or conditional

Present necessity asserting

D o with an obscure intimation of command /imperation/

Looser moral obligation asserting

The use of the categorical or absolute or [...?] senses must in the order of invention have come before, and served as a basis of, the conditional. The language of brutes is throughout absolute: conditionality-embracing a prsop[ect] /survey/ taken of the future through the medium of the past and present, is an object to the surveying of which no eye inferior to the human is competent

1. Antecedent

If Eurybiades had killed Themistocles

2. Consequent

The Athenians would have killed Eurybiades