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fcure, etc. This Logical Order rests, on the contrary, 

 on Analytical Generalizations (37; B. O. t. 1012), 

 furnishing a handful of Elementary Sounds, repre- 

 sented by the Alphabet, but which, in their way, just 

 as really and exhaustively contain, in themselves, the 

 luhole Language, in all its actuality and possibility, as, 

 in its way, the broadest Objective Method could do 

 nay, indeed, more really and exhaustively, since Obser- 

 vational Generalizations are not susceptible of being 

 so perfectly accomplished as the Analytical. 



67. From the Alphabet, as, so to speak, an Inter- 

 nal Knot of the Elements of Speech, a Core, a Cen- 

 trum, a Focus, or Hub, of the Principles of Language 

 represented in Elements, the Structural Constitution 

 of the whole Language is then wrought out, in a 

 new and inverse sense from that previously consid- 

 ered. Syllabaries, Spelling Books, Dictionaries, Vo- 

 cabularies and finally Encyclopedias and the Cata- 

 loguing of entire Libraries, and, finally, of all Litera- 

 ture, are built upon the basis of the Alphabet, which 

 serves in turn as their key, and thence as the key, or, 

 to change the figure, as the Yestibule to the whole 

 Language itself. To go out from the Alphabet as 

 from the centre or main Entrance to the Periphery 

 of Language in this new sense, is to proceed in the 

 Inverse or Logical, and hence not in the Natural, but 

 in its opposite, the Scientific Order of investigation 

 and treatment. 



68. But in all of this primitive treatment of Lan- 

 guage, in both Orders, first, separately, and then, in 

 both combined, and reacting upon each other, we are 



