Note 56 — Part I
Reading edition
In this regard it is interesting to note that: "The Teutonic 'Kunst' (Art) is formed from können, and können is developed from a primitive Ich kann. Ich kann philology recognizes a preterite form of a lost verb, of which we find the traces in Kin-d, a child; and the form Ich kann, thus meaning originally, 'I begot,' contains the germ of the two developments—können, 'to be master,' 'to be able,' and 'kennen' to know" (Sidney Colvin, in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th Edition. Article, "Art").