184 MUSICAL RECONSTRUCTION, 



ured with more accuracy than Callipers and Cranios- 

 copy can apply to the heads of Individuals ; by the 

 simple means of weighing Hie types employed in printing 

 the different languages, observing the predominance 

 of the different sounds, and apportioning the types, 

 and a new branch of science will thus be born. The 

 same tendency to prefer different Sounds and Classes 

 of Sounds, or the words which contain them, will cause 

 a modified idiomatism to prevail even in the -body of 

 Alwato, characterizing different nationalities and 

 classes of Society, down to the " Individual Equa- 

 tion" but without disturbing the general unity of a 

 language which is rallied by a constant appeal to its 

 scientific bases. 



227. I shah 1 take pains elsewhere to do justice to 

 the original and profound instinctual and poetical 

 feeling of Benjamin Blood for the inherent mean- 

 ing of Sounds, as related to Poetry. When Oral 

 Sounds, Inherent Meaning, and Musical Experience, 

 are finally adjusted to each other (as they will read- 

 ily be) in the Sublime Musical Compositions of the 

 Future, Music will have experienced the influence of 

 Universological discovery, and will be radically re- 

 generated. S. P. A. 



APPENDIX C. 



228. Mr. Dana, of " The Sun," (newspaper) recently 

 requested of me, for his paper, a statement in brief of 

 my " whole idea," measuring off on his finger (in tlio 

 true spirit of modern journalism) the space in tin 



