488 REMARKS ON THE ORIGIN 
may be seen on inspecting those given in Fig. 1. 
or in Fig. 3., when by simply leaving out one or 
other parts of the first combination in a certain 
order, as in B. or simply reversing the position 
of one of the elementary arrow-heads, as at C. D. 
we are able to repeat the entire series again. 
FIG. III. 
13 121-7 V.laYs 
IEE = {7 | hg As Ik AS 
PVey oy LY Y Ey ET 
YEVET" te Vl lz 
Here we have thirty perfect alphabetic characters, 
every one of which is distinctly different, and yet 
we have only three transpositions of the elemen- 
tary arrow-head, as may be seen by a very tran- 
sient glance at the preceding figure; these dis- 
tinct combinations might be pursued without end 
by the system of making changes in the relative 
position of the elementary forms, for by sim- 
