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and, in a sense, to teach a special habit of reading 

 adapted to this style of subject. 



222. I have also adopt. 'd the habit (liable to some 

 criticism) of signing my initials to Notes and fugitive 

 documents, whether they accompany my more formal 

 labors or not, especially where the subject requires 

 that I fall down to the familiar style which author- 

 izes the use of the pronoun I. It is not altogether 

 the usage, but it suits best my idea of the conclen- 

 tial relation which I hope to establish with the Stu- 

 dents of Universology. S. P. A. 



APPENDIX B. 



SWEDEKBOKG ON THE MEANING OF THE TOWELS. 



223. The Homogenisnius of Mind.is Affection, as its 

 Heterogenismus or Limitary Aspect (Form-like) is 

 Intellect, Intelligence, or The Knowing Faculty 

 (Ideation.) The Vowel-sounds (homogeneous in 

 character) echo, therefore, to, or correspond with, or 

 are the analogues of, the Affedionality of the Mind, (as 

 the consonants are related to the Thought-Element.) 

 Music, which is the Language of the Affections, 

 modulates mainly in the Yowels, and Thought or 

 Cogitation prefers the Consonants. It is vaguely 

 recognized among musicians that each Key and 

 Note of music tends to awaken a different and spe- 

 cific kind of emotion ; Helmholtz has proven that 

 the Varieties of Vowel-Sound (in Oral Speech) rest 

 on a Musical Basis. We are on the verge of a demon- 

 stration, therefore, from purely empirical and me- 

 chanical considerations, of the fundamental idea of 



