lvester's "_opal-coloured_ morn", Drayton's "_silver-sanded_ shore",
and perhaps Marlowe's "_golden-fingered_ Ind"{78}.

Our modern inventions in the same kind are for the most part very
inferior: they could hardly fail to be so, seeing that the formative,
plastic powers of a language are always waning and diminishing more and
more. It may be, and indeed is, gaining in other respects, but in this
it is losing; and thus it is not strange if its later births in this
kind are less successful than its earlier. Among the poets of our own
time Shelley has done more than any other to assert for the language
that it has not quite renounced this power; while among writers of prose
in these later days Jeremy Bentham has been at once one of the boldest,
but at the same time one of the most unfortunate, of those who have
issued this money from their mint. Still we ought not to forget, while
we divert ourselves with the strange and formless progeny of his brain,
that we owe 'international' to him--a word at once so convenient and
supplying so real a need, that it was, and with manifest advantage, at
once adopted by all{79}.

{Sidenote: _Adjectives ending in al_}

Another way in which languages increase their stock of vocables is by
the forming of new words according to the analogy of formations, which
in seemingly parallel cases have been already allowed. Thus long since
upon certain substantives such as 'congregation', 'convention', were
formed their adjectives, 'congregational', 'conventional'; yet these
also at a comparatively modern period; 'congregational' first rising up
in the Assembly of Divines, or during the time of the Commonwealth{80}.
These having found admission into the language, it is attempted to repeat
the process in the case of other words with the same ending. I confess
the effect is often exceedingly disagreeable. We are now pretty well used
to 'educational', and the word is sometimes serviceable enough; but I can
perfectly remember when some twenty years ago an "_Educational_ Magazine"
was started, the first impression on one's mind was, that a work having
to do with education should not thus bear upon its front an offensive,
or to say the best, a very dubious novelty in the English language{81}.
These adjectives are now multiplying fast. We have 'inflexional',
'seasonal', 'denominational', and, not content with this, in dissenting
magazines at least, the monstrous birth, 'denominationalism'; 'emotional'
is c