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ings of the prior elements (those of the separate Yowel 

 and the separate Consonant-sound involved in each 

 such combination), is a work of skill, tasking the 

 keenest insight of the expert Phonetician-and-Univer- 

 sologist, and demanding, perhaps, a specific faculty for 

 the quick perception and the profound appreciation of 

 analogies ; as, in the case of Chemistry, it must be 

 the professional chemist who deals with ultimate (or 

 primitive) analysis and synthesis. The meanings of 

 the Two-Letter-Roots are best, then, for ordinary 

 purposes, stated dogmatically and accepted on au- 

 thority the way being always open for recurring to 

 the deeper analysis by all those who take pleasure 

 in doing so, or by those whose mental constitution 

 or state demands the more absolute demonstration. 

 148. To illustrate : the h-sound denotes breath-like- 

 being, spirit, and o denotes presentation; b denotes head- 

 and-trunk (or bulb-and-shaft), and o presentation ; and 

 m denotes muchness and outness, and a (ah) denotes sub- 

 stance. Now it may require the mental tact us erudi- 

 tus, and a large and clear oversight of the whole 

 field of analogy, to derive, with scientific confidence, 

 the meaning man or humanity from the combination 

 of h and o into ho ; or that of body from that of b 

 and o into bo ; or that of mass (or matrix) from that 

 of in and a into ma. It will be better, therefore, 

 practically, for ordinary works of instruction in the 

 new language not to go so far back towards the 

 beginning-point of the verbal creation, but to assume 

 as known, after the fact shall have been established 



