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two. These Three Fundamental Varieties of Tl-.e 

 Simple or Unimorplnc Abstract, Division, Unition, and 

 the Hinying of these Tivo v.pon each other, are then 

 found to be answered to or represented by the Three 

 Particular Sounds of this Class k, t, and p, respec- 

 tively. The Pluriinorphic Abstract distributes into 

 similar Particulars represented by sh, s, and f. The 

 Concrete undergoes also Analogical Distributions 

 throughout, terminating on the Sounds which repre- 

 sent the Three Kingdoms, Mineral, Vegetable and 

 Animal, respectively, (b, zh, z, 000.) 



117. The Proofs are Synthetical, when they are de- 

 rived from a comparison of the Parts and Shapings 

 of the Mouth in the production of the Sounds, and 

 from the Effects on the Ear, or from the character of 

 the Sounds themselves as made and heard ; and when 

 by this method of examination (the production and 

 the audition of the Sounds), indications are discov- 

 ered of real alliances with corresponding ideas, or of 

 a Natural Fitness in the Sounds to express or to ex- 

 cite given ideas not merely nor mainly by an ex- 

 ternal and obvious imitation, the bow-wow theory, but 

 more truly, by an interior and occulfc symbolism or 

 enactment of the corresponding ideas. This peculiar- 

 ity of sounds is illustrated in the following instances : 

 Let a skilled Phonetician, with some elocution- 

 ary power, utter and prolong and exaggerate a little 

 the trill of the consonant-sound r, and no one will 

 fail to detect in the rapid vibrations of the point of the 

 tongue, and in their effect upon the ear, an exact re- 

 semblance to the whirr and buzz of a circular saw or 



