92 "REALITY" AND "LIMITATION' IN SPEECH. 



Accordingly, the Silences of Speech are repre- 

 sented on the printed page of any book by " Blanl;*" 

 or by what the printers call " Spaces " the identical 

 two terms ( J ilank and space) which are applied to the 

 Nothing, or Negative Aspect, of the Material Uni- 

 verse Blank Space, itself. 



124. Dismissing this back-lying and lowest dis- 

 crimination ; dismissing, in better terms, the Nothing- 

 Element of Speech, the Silence or Silences, which last 

 correspond to the Interstices of Space in the Consti- 

 tution of Matter ; and turning our attention to what 

 remains, or rather to what results from the Some- 

 thing-Element in conjunction with its Negative Base ; 

 to the Utterance, in other words, or Phonos of Lan- 

 guage ; this, then, undergoes a primary division which 

 echoes, in a higher or concrete sense, to the remaining 

 one of these metaphysical differences, that between 1. 

 Reality, and 2. Limitation. The " Reality " of Lan- 

 guage, or, what is the same thing, the Substance-like 

 Element of Speech is, then, Vocality, or, in other words, 

 the Complex or Aggregate of the Vowel-Sounds ; and 

 the "Limitation" or Articulation of Speech, the 

 Morphic or Form-like Element, is the complex 

 or aggregate of the Consonant-Sounds whence it 

 happens that the Consonants are habitually denomi- 

 nated Articulations, in a more special sense than that 

 in which the term, Articulate, is applied, generically, 

 to Speech or Language at large. 



125. But, intermediate to the prior distribution of 

 Speech into Sound and Silence-, and the subsequent 

 distribution into Vocality and Articulation, there is 



