Note 344 — Chapter IX
Hugh J. C. Beavan translation
Latham thus explains it: “This is because whilst A and B, in the way of stock-blood or pedigree, will give C a true tertium quid, or a near approach to it, and A and B, in the way of language, will only give themselves, i. e., they will give no true tertium quid, nor any very close approach to it.” Celtic Nations, p. 33. We have endeavoured to prove that this true tertium quid—this real mean term, is never produced as far as species.