CONSTITUENCY OF UNIVERSE AND SPEECH. 91 



verse), 1. THE SOMETHING or Reality is SOUND or the 

 Intoned Breath, 2. THE NOTHING or Negation is 

 SILENCE, or the Intervening Spaces, or Silences, be- 

 tween Discourses, Sentences, Words, Syllables, and 

 Sounds, and 3. LIMITATION is ARTICULATION, or the 

 breaking up of the homogeneous or continuous 

 sounding breath into special or differentiated partic- 

 ular Sounds, while, still, these Sounds are held to- 

 gether in Discourse ; and, so, being, at the same time, 

 both separated and united, and, hence, cardinated or 

 bearing a hinge-wise relationship to each other, they 

 are denominated Articulate, or Articulated Sounds ; 

 the word, "Articulated 3 being derived from the 

 Latin articulus, A LITTLE JOINT or HINGE. 



123. In a similar or correspondential manner, in the 

 Outer Material Universe, the diffused Ether which in- 

 fills Space echoes to and represents the mere Abstract 

 or Metaphysical Something or Reality of Being ; the 

 Blank' Space itself holds the same relation to the 

 Metaphysical Nothing ; and the Mathematical Posit- 

 ings and Divisions of Space, and the Bodies organ- 

 ized from the Ether in the Space in subordination to 

 the mathematical points, lines and surfaces limiting 

 or articulating them, as the planets or other objects 

 in nature, correspond collectively to the Metaphysical 

 Category of Limitation ; (" The Limiting" and " The 

 Limited," B.O. a. 20, t. 204); so that there is CORRES- 

 PONDENCE or ECHO between the constitution of Language 

 and that of the Material Universe and that, again, of the 

 Abstract Metaphysical Domain of Pure Thought, re- 

 spectively. 



