TRANSCRIPT OF THE UNIVERSE. 45 



its starting points, or, in other words, to lay its foun- 

 dation, upon which it then elevates a far more lofty 

 edifice. 



71. It has been shown that Language is a Minor 

 Universe echoing to or repeating the Grand Uni- 

 verse, (63.) It results, therefore, that when we 

 distribute radically and rightly the Elementary 

 Sounds of the Human Voice, from which Language 

 is constructed, we, do, virtually, and by a valid Scien- 

 tific Analogy, also distribute the Categories, not merely 

 of the Understanding, but of Universal Being, the Ele- 

 mentary Entities and Principles, in other words, of 

 the Universe itself, more effectively than can be done 

 in any other way ; and that we lay the foundations, 

 in this manner, at the same time and place, of the 

 New Universal Science, and of a NEW SCIENTIFIC 

 UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE, which shall be, in its structure, 

 the Rectified and Clarified Transcript of the Universe ; 

 as Language, in its existing Instinctual and Confused 

 Development, has been the blurred and imperfect 

 Sketch (Fr. ebauche), of the same Universe. 



72. But to complete, or more properly to even ini- 

 tiate, this new order of investigation, the Scientology 

 of the Universe and of Speech, we must discover 

 the meaning which Nature attaches to each Elementary 

 Articulate Sound of the Voice ; for if the Elements of 

 Sound are the Analogues or Individual Echoes of 

 the Elements of the Universe itself, which are the 

 Proto-pragmata and Abstract Principles of which it 

 is composed, then it follows that each sound of the 

 voice in speech, such as is represented by a Letfcsr of 



