CHAPTER V. 



JUSTIFICATION OF THE ASSIGNMENT (AS MADE IN THE 

 LAST TWO PRECEDING CHAPTERS) OF THE INHERENT 

 MEANINGS OF THE ELEMENTS OF LANGUAGE. 



110. The Vowels and Eaclt Class of Consonant-Sounds 

 represent, as shown in what precedes, a Primitive 

 Logical or Noinological Aspect, and hence, in this 

 sense, a LAW, or First Necessary Condition, of Being ; 

 which is then true, also, in greater speciality, of each 

 Individual Sound. 



111. The Yowels represent Proto-plasmal Being, 

 the (Jollective Undifferentiated Materials or Ingredients 

 of Being, with, at most, preliminary or incipient as- 

 pects, only, of Differentiation and Organization. This 

 Domain is therefore collectively the Homogeneity of 

 Being, and, in its Universal Aspect, it is Kant's Real- 

 ity, or SOMETHING, or " The Unlimited " or "Infinite." 

 The Interspaces of Silence in Speech represent Kant's 

 Negation. They are the Analogue of Blank Space, 

 7te.ro, or NOTHING. 



112. The Consonants are Breaks and Limits in 

 Vocality, and represent, therefore, Kant's Limitation 

 which is Heterogeneit ij . The Thin or Abstractoid 



