ABSTEACTOIDS AND CONC3ETOID8. 6,J 



type tlie series ending at the lips in p, and the series 

 ending at the lips in/ are Light or Thin, and hence 

 signify that which is ABSTRACT (or " The Abstract "), 

 as, for example, a Point without extension ; a Line 

 without thickness ; a Law ; a relation of two num- 

 bers as thought of in the mind ; and the like ; or the 

 Analogues of such Abstract Things. They do not 

 therefore, primarily, represent Heal or Concrete Ob- 

 jects or Things. 



102. Those sounds, on the contrary, which couple 

 with these, and are printed in Heavy or Black-Faced 

 Types the series ending at the lips in !>, and the 

 series ending at the lips in v signify that which is 

 CONCRETE (or " The Concrete "), that is to say, Eeal 

 Objects or Things, Mineral, Vegetable or Animal ; 

 things which have bulk, weight and substancive value ; 

 and the analogues of these objects even in purely Ideal 

 Spheres, as, for example, ivithin the mind itself. 



103. This distinction between these two sub-classes 

 of consonant-sounds (Thin and Thick or Abstract-oid 

 and Concret-oid) has been virtually seized upon for 

 a practical purpose by Isaac Pitman, the inventor of 

 Steno-Phonography or Phonographic Short -Hand. 

 He has represented the Abstract, more strictly the 

 Abstractoid sub-class of solid consonant-sounds by 

 certain single Light strokes of the pen, and the cor- 

 responding Concrete or Concretoid Class, by precisely 

 the same strokes, with the mere difference that the 

 strokes are, in this latter case, made Heavy. These 

 are two sub-classes of sounds, within which each 

 Two Sounds produced at the same seat of sound and 



