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The Concrete, the Entire Concrete World itself. This 

 echo (of the Abstracted of The Concrete to the Ab- 

 stract, and of, as in the instance just given, the Con- 

 cretozcZ of the same to the Concrete) is an instance, 

 and an important one, of Scientific Analogy, (11.) 



177. The Objects and Ideas which so repeat each 

 other, are called ANALOGUES of each other ; and this 

 subtle echoing character of Objects to Objects, of 

 Ideas to Ideas, of Objects to Ideas, of Objects and 

 Ideas to entire Spheres or Domains of Being, of Do- 

 mains to Domains, and the like, throughout all the 

 Departments of Being, is what is meant by " Universal 

 Analogy" or "The Doctrine of Correspondences," as 

 it is now specifically discovered, and is about to be 

 utilized in the Sciences. It is this discovery which 

 renders a Universal Language and a Universal Sci- 

 ence possible, because it establishes the possibility 

 of a True although Transcendental Classification of 

 All Things, and even of all possible Ideas. 1 



178. Nothing can be more striking, to one who is 

 familiar with the qualities of Sound, than the exact 

 appropriateness of the Thin, Light, (or Abstractoid) 

 Class of the Consonant-Sounds, t, k, p, etc., to the 

 denotation of The Abstract, universally, (THE AB- 

 STKACTISMUS), and of all the Details and Particulars 

 of the same ; and of the Thick, Heavy, (or Concre- 



1 1 cannot speak too highly of the recent work of Dr. McCosh, on 

 " The Discursive Laws of Thought " (Logic), as furnishing to the 

 careful student one of the best preparations for the still subtler 

 definitions, and the deeper descent into the profundities, of the 

 Universolomcal Abstract. S. P. A. 



