ITALIAN AND GERMAN. 



Language merely preponderates in Vowels, and the 

 German in Consonants, and this illustrates what 

 meant by MERE PREPONDERANCE. There is, in other 

 words, a subordinate (but also Subdominant) propor- 

 tion of Consonant-Sounds in Italian, notwithstanding 

 its prevailing Yowel Character, and so vice versa, of 

 the German ; and this is what is meant by SUBDOMI- 



NANCE. 



86. Reasoning inversely, it may be said that the 

 Italian language, renders, on analysis, the Vowel- 

 Elemenfc in Preponderance, and the Consonant-Element 

 in SuMominance, and that, contrariwise, the German 

 language yields the Consonant-Element in Prepon- 

 derance and the Vowel-Element in Subdominanoe. 



87. It is the Aggregate of the Elementary Domains 

 of Being (or of any given Domain) which constitutes 

 the Elernentismus. It is the Aggregate of the Ela- 

 borate Domains which constitutes the Elaborismus. 

 Phonetics and Alphabetics pertain to the Elementis- 

 mus of Language. The Yowels and Consonants are 

 Elementary Departments, or Special Domains with- 

 in the Domain of Phonetics, or within the Alphabet. 

 The Alphabet of Vowels and Consonants (with their 

 interspaces of Silence) are, indeed, virtually the whole 

 of the Elementismus of Language. Every thing else 

 in Language, Grammar, Dictionary, Rhetoric, Logic, 

 the Musical Expansion of Language, the History, 

 Local Distribution and Etymological and Gramma- 

 tical Comparison of different languages, are collect- 

 ively the Elaborismus of the Universal Language- 

 Domain or of Language at large ; all of which is 



