CHAPTER XL 



SPECIAL AND TECHNICAL INSTANCES OF THE COMPOSITION 

 OF ALWASO WORDS. ILLUSTRATION OF ALWASO GRAM- 

 MATICAL STRUCTURE. 



187. It may be appropriate to give at least a single 

 illustration of the unequaled Capacities of ATwato to 

 serve as the Lingual Instrument for Technical Ex- 

 pression, by the amount and precision of the Mean- 

 ing or Meanings which may be compressed into the 

 single word. 



188. Conceive, in the mind, in the first instance, a 

 Figure composed of Three Straight Lines cutting 

 each other, centrally and at right angles (in the diam- 

 eters of the three dimensions), and this figure placed 

 (as to Posture or Position), so that One of these 

 Lines (the dimension of thickness) shall stand per- 

 pendicularly to the earth's surface. This FIGURE- 

 AND-PosiTiON is one of peculiar value and importance 

 in the study of COSMICAL MORPHOLOGY, a New Branch 

 of Science growing out of Universology ; and is a 

 Figure-and-Position for the simple naming of which 

 the resources of our Old Style Languages are wholly 

 inadequate. In " The Basic Outline of Universol- 



