278 GRAMMAR, &C. 



Memorla Technica. 



Dr. Grey's plan was to make such a change in the 

 termination of the name of place, person, coin, planet, 

 &c. &c., without altering the beginning, as shall rea- 

 dily suggest the thing sought, while the beginning of 

 the word being preserved, it becomes a leading or 

 prompting syllable to the end of the word thus 

 changed. As Cyruts, Alexita, Julios (for Cyrus, 

 Alexander, and Julius), the final letters of which 

 suggest the year of the world in which they lived, 

 and some other particulars.* 



A Universal Language. 



This is formed by Arabic numbers taken arbitra- 

 rily. Every number is assumed as denoting the 

 same word in all languages. By means of this dis- 

 tinction, when a Frenchman is desirous of writing to 

 a German the following sentence, la guerre est un 

 grand mal, he seeks in his index for guerre, etre, 

 grand) mal, and writes the correspondent numbers, 

 13. 33. 67. 68. 



* The labour of acquiring this system is so great, and the be- 

 nefit resulting so unimportant, that it has been compared to 

 cracking nuts with a steam-engine. 



