THE ELEMENTARY, AND THE ELABORATE. 53 



83. Although the Elementisrnus and the Elaboris- 

 mus are very Distinct or " Discrete ' Degrees of 

 'Being, there is, nevertheless, an Echo of Analogy be- 

 tween them. The Elenientisnius of the Universe 

 consists of Proto-pragmata or Primary Realities, as 

 Entity or Thing, Relation, Matter, Space, etc., and of 

 Principles or Primary Laws, as Unism, Duism, etc. 

 These Elementary Distributions then reappear in the 

 Elaborated Universe, not as mere Abstractions, which 

 they are in their Elementary Aspect, but as embodied 

 in, and constituting corresponding Elaborate Domains ; 

 but, then, in conjunction witli other Elements, while yet 

 each Element occurs in such preponderance, in 

 some particular instance of The Elaborate, as to be 

 characteristic, and governing, in thctt particular given 

 Domain. By Echo of Analogy, each Class of Sounds, 

 and each Particular Sound occurring in the Alphabet 

 of Speech, answers to, and is answered to by some 

 Whole Department in the Elaborate or General Consti- 

 tution of Language, in which Department the same 

 Principle (represented by the Particular Elementary 

 Sound) recurs, not so purely and abstractly, but yet 

 in a governing or characteristic degree. This ab- 

 struse and difficult idea will be rendered readily com- 

 prehensible by what follows. (85.) 



84. It is thus that the Absolutoid and Abstractoid 

 Elementismus of Being echoes or reappears by Ana- 

 logy within the Kelatoicl and Concretoid Elaboris- 

 mus ; the Plan of Nature being to organize some part 

 of her Domains as the somewhat exclusive residence of 

 each Fundameutal Abstract Principle ; or as the some- 



