42 THE SCIENTIFIC LINGUAL HEAD. 



work is empirically accomplished, applies only to the 

 single Language, is destitute of radical knowledge 

 of the Sound-producing Organismus (the Throat, 

 Mouth and Nose) and of many other things essential 

 to the Constitution of the Final and Universal Pho- 

 netic Alphabet, destined thereafter to arise, at some 

 day, as the instrument for expressing with equal cer- 

 tainty all existing and even all possible languages.' 



66. Even this imperfect Phonetic Alphabet is, 

 nevertheless, a new and wonderful Element in the 

 constitution of Language. It becomes the Scientific 

 Head or Centre of the Language to which it applies, 

 from which, outwardly, there arises that Inverse Or- 

 der of investigating and treating the whole Lingual 

 Domain which has been adverted to above (64), as the 

 Subjective Method or Logical Order of investigation 

 and treatment. The Objective Method or Natural 

 Order previously sketched (64) rested on OBSERVA- 

 TIONAL GENERALIZATIONS (37 ; B. O. t. 1012), which 

 furnish such general divisions of Language as its 

 Grammar, its Logical Structure, its Musical Struc- 



1 I do not leave out of mind the extraordinary and exceptional 

 fact that the Sanscrit Alphabet, perhaps the oldest Alphabet extant, 

 is a marvel of scientific accuracy, for anything wrought out in this 

 primitive or Naturismal method, and that it is vastly superior, for 

 exposition of the true classification of sounds, to any of our more 

 modern alphabets ; but yet, radically considered, even the Sanscrit 

 alphabet is not adequately scientizcd by reference to the organic 

 production of Sounds by the Speech Organ, as demonstrated by 

 modern Science, and still less by any knowledge of the analogical 

 principles involved in and requiring to be represented in the Final 

 Universal Alphabet S. P. A. 



