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in respect to both their Spacic and their Tempic Dis- 

 tribution. Oral Speech, Music and Song may be dis- 

 criminated as Departments of this Lingual Universe ; 

 and so also Grammar, Logic and Rhetoric. The 

 Grammar of Language may itself undergo division 

 into Etymology, Syntax, etc. ; and the Parts of 

 Speech may be distinguished and specified. Ana- 

 lysis, and the Phonetic Elements of Speech may be 

 designated as something distinct from every other 

 Department, or at least Hieroglyphic and Syllabic 

 Alphabets devised, and some idea of Words, Syllables 

 and Elements be entertained ; and all this may con- 

 ceivably exist, without any such Analysis of Element- 

 ary Sounds as would supply a proper Phonetic 

 Alphabet, which is the true Core or Centre of 

 Speech, (even when this Alphabet is itself defective 

 and imperfect from the want of a more rigorous and 

 ultra-analytical process). All that has now been de- 

 scribed belongs then to the Objective Method, or, in 

 other words, to the Natural Order of the Naturismal 

 or common phase of the Investigation of Language. 

 65. But, all of this Procedure may be inverted, 

 and, indeed, so soon as the study of Language as- 

 sumes a really Scientific Character (of the Naturis- 

 mal kind) it is even more natural that it should be in- 

 verted. The exigencies of writing, in the effort to 

 preserve Language, force that degree of Analysis 

 upon the primitive scholars of a nation that they de- 

 velop a somewhat imperfect Phonetic Alphabet, but 

 still a Phonetic Alphabet, representing the Elements of 

 Sound of their particular National Tongue. The 



