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guages, e. x. the Chinese and the Latin, if made not directly, but 

 by the intermediation of languages charged with the arkite or eccle- 

 siastical element, e. x. the Australo-Polynesian group, will result 

 in establishing a genuine and close alliance, the recognition of which 

 has become a sine qua noti to the further progress of Comparative 

 Philology. 



8. That the explanation of the Alphabet will turn out to be not 

 purely organic, nor merely hieroglyphic, but in part both; and under 

 the domination, not of an unshackled, uninstructed, and irrepressi- 

 ble imagination, as most of the alphabet theories seem to postulate, 

 but of an imagination highly cultivated, well-regulated, and subjected 

 to a fixed mytho-philosophy, taught by initiation, and developed 

 under cover of religious mystery. 



9. That when the true alphabetic key is found, it can be ap- 

 plied to the discovery of the meaning of the whole architectural, 

 geographical, zoological, botano-medical, heraldic, and genealogical 

 nomenclatures; of all those portions of the languages of the me- 

 chanic arts, and marine life, which do not date lower than the six- 

 teenth or seventeenth centuries; of the essentially formal terms 

 used by the legal profession, and of the whole language of saga, folks- 

 lore, fairy-tale, and nursery-rhyme literature. In a word, this Cabala, 

 first exhibited in the alphabets of antiquity, penetrates all modern 

 languages to such an extent, that the failures of comparative philolo- 

 gists to determine satisfactorily the most diflScult questions of the 

 science are due to their ignorance or contempt of it. 



10. That a large proportion, if not the most of all diphthongs, are 

 contractions, produced by dropping the middle consonant of a tri- 

 radical dissyllable; such as caer from cahar, taur from tabor; and 

 that the medial thus suppressed has been commonly, but not always, 

 a. labial. 



11. That in perhaps a majority of cases, the long or double 

 voyals rj, «, 0, U, are contractions of the same diphthongal nature; 

 while in other cases they represent the suppression of p, k, r, 1, final. 



12. That the case- and gender-terminations S and M may be ex- 

 plained by the active and passive, or subjective and objective ideas 

 attached to the two forms of the water-symbol. The Hebrew plural 

 termination is explicable in the same way. And, in fiict, that a cer- 

 tain portion of the doubtfully explained affixes and suffixes encoun- 

 tered by grammatical investigators are hierophantic or cabalistically 

 alphabetic. 



13. That the ship-symbol U, V, with its variants, the mountain- 



