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Consonants represent strictly, " The Limiting," to 

 per as, and the Thick or Concretoicl Consonants, " The 

 Limited," (B. O. a. 20-25, t. 204, 467.) The Liquids 

 represent Inter-blended or Generalized Limitation, the 

 return from The Heterogeneous towards The Homo- 

 geneous, by the mingling and expunging of the 

 sharper Lines of Differentiation. The Anabigu's or 

 Coalescents represent those still finer Essences of 

 Being which are Spiritually Vital, and which border, 

 transitionally, upon The Unlimited or Infinite (the 

 Vowels), on the one hand, and upon Limitation or 

 The Finite (the Consonants), on the other hand. 



113. The Alphabet is distributed, it will have been 

 observed (Chapter III.), into Classes of Sounds 

 bearing titles some of which are new, the propriety 

 of which will appear, however, in some instances, . 

 immediately, and, in other instances, upon further 

 consideration. Solids is a term of this novel 

 character. It has not heretofore been employed 

 in classifying Sounds ; but the term Liquids is of 

 long and well established usage, and it implies 

 Solids, for the counterparting and hitherto unnamed 

 class. Abstract and Concrete (more strictly Abstract oid 

 and Concretoid) are new in this application for those 

 two great Classes of Consonant-Sounds which have 

 been heretofore very variously named as Thin and 

 Thick, as Sharp and Dill, as Light and Heavy, as 

 Tenues and Medice, as Surds and Sonants, as Whispered 

 and Spoken, as Hard and Soft Cheeks. 1 The new 



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