The verb to the particular object : "I see" is limitless, in "I see you" my seeing is limited. So with verbs of motion : "I go" is limitless, "I go home" give the limit. Used with all verbs, and even sometimes with adjectives and nouns, the accusative limits their application to some definite extent. Thus limitations in Space and Time are expressed by the accusative. The fundamental distinction is between the External and the Internal Object ; in the External and actions is directed to an object outside ; in the Internal the action does not go outside itself. "Fight the foe" embodies an External accusative, "Fight the good fight" an internal Accusative. "The foe" limits the working of the verb "fight" by means of an outside object ; "the good fight" limits the working of the verb "within that working itself" (i.e. "the good fight" is essentially in conception a subdivision of fighting).
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