."THE INFINITE" AND "THE ABSOLUTE." 93 



another (less important) division or distribution to 

 be noticed. - This concerns the difference between 

 the so-called Inarticulate Sounds made by animals, 

 and in part also by the human voice, as in sneezing, 

 coughing, and the like, and True Articulate Speech. 

 By Inarticulate is here meant, however, Indeterminate 

 Articulation, or articulation of a lower grade, in the 

 same manner as by the term Inorganic we do not 

 mean that which has no kind or degree of organiza- 

 tion, but that which is relatively without organization. 

 Inarticulate sounds may be taken to correspond with 

 meteors, meteoric dust, and the like, which have the 

 same amorphous and anomalous relation to the regu- 

 larly constituted planetary bodies and other stih 1 

 more highly organized objects which these inarticu- 

 late sounds hold to language as articulate speech. 

 This Indeterminate Kegion is the Analogue of the 

 " Primitive Chaos," of the poetical conception. 



126. Assuming, now, the diphthong au (ah-oo), as 

 representative of the vowels at large, the whole 

 Vowel-Scale (92), which it is, with sufficient ac- 

 curacy for ordinary uses, the termination -io (ee-o) 

 to mean Realm or Domain and -ia (ee-ah) to denote a 

 Principle, we have the Alwato word au,io (ah-oo-ee-o) 

 to denote the realm or domain of Unlimited or Infinite 

 KEALITY Unlimited or Infinite, because there is no such 

 element of sound appearing therein as denotes Limi- 

 tation, which it is the special function of the Conso- 

 nants to do. Au,io means, therefore, The Infinite 

 Reality, or Simply " THE INFINITE." It is, still, how- 

 ever, The Infinite, (Illimited or Unlimited) in a Sen- 



