The Gender Of The Moon

In Engllsh, French, Italian, Latin and Greek the moon is feminine, but in all the Teutonic tongues the moon is masculine. Which of the twain is its true gender? We go 'back to the Sanskrit for an answer. Prof. Max Muller saya: "It is no longer denied that for throwing light on some of the darkest problems that have to be solved by th student of language nothing is so useful as a critical study of Sanskrit." Here the word for the moon is mas, which is masculine. Mark how even what Hamlet calis "words, words, words," lend their weight and value to the adjustment of this great argument. The very moon is masculine, and, like Wordsworth's child, is "father of the man."-