CHAPTER VIII.
ORDER OF TERMS, EULER'S DIAGRAMS, LOGICAL EQUATIONS, EXISTENTIAL IMPORT OF PROPOSITIONS Sec.1.Of the terms of a proposition which is the Subject and which the Predicate?
In most of the exemplary propositions cited by Logicians it will be found that the subject is a substantive and the predicate an adjective, as in _Men are mortal_.

This is the relation of Substance and Attribute which we saw (chap.i.Sec.

5) to be the central type of relations of coinherence; and on this model other predications may be formed in which the subject is not a substance, but is treated as if it were, and could therefore be the ground of attributes; as _Fame is treacherous, The weather is changeable_.

But, in literature, sentences in which the adjective comes first are not uncommon, as _Loud was the applause, Dark is the fate of man, Blessed are the peacemakers_, and so on.

Here, then, 'loud,' 'dark' and 'blessed' occupy the place of the logical subject.