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perceptibly, distinctly, markedly, considerably, conspicuously, 

 substantially, strikingly, remarkably, completely true", would 

 become "this is one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, 

 nine true", or if false be included, we reach the series 1 to 17, 

 and so with all modifications. Similarly, "one (to seventeen) 

 frequently", "one (to seventeen) altitude mountain", etc. Lan- 

 guage would probably gain immeasurably by such a method, 

 and emotions would attach themselves to these numbers as to 

 words. 



11. The art of the poet and the orator would be universalised. 

 Terms and expressions possessing restricted meanings would 

 be systematically transferred to new subjects or generalised. 

 In this manner terms and expressions relating to law, religion, 

 commerce, the arts and sciences, etc., would be, though con- 

 trolled, systematically employed outside these realms whenever 

 convenient. Terms and expressions would be thus indefinitely 

 multiplied; the latest of these would be fully exploited; older 

 terms and expressions would not impose on us; and language 

 would be incomparably fresher, breezier, and more beautiful. 



12. Lastly. Instead, as is now the case, of fortuitously col- 

 lecting a poor and corrupt stock of words, a vast treasure of 

 unequivocal and vivid terms, composed of a few root characters 

 and positional meanings, would be deliberately learned and 

 appreciated. In this way just and delicate discrimination gene- 

 rallyand specifically in connection with the master subjects: 

 morals, aesthetics, methodology, truth, civics, economics, health, 

 and happiness would be acquired by the child and adolescent 

 both practically and theoretically. Men and women would 

 systematically learn their philological, as they systematically 

 learn their metric, system. Each root and affix would possess 

 a fixed meaning and that meaning everybody would be 

 acquainted with and freely employ. Language would be a living 

 whole where every part is alive, and is related to all other 

 parts, and not a body of words mostly unconnected with one 

 another, capriciously changing, frequently meaningless in them- 

 selves, and living isolated, squalid, and short lives. This language 

 would naturally tend to be the universal language, as the 

 metrical system is tending to be the universal system of measure- 

 ment, and as the latter is capable of improvement perhaps 

 into a duodecimal system so our scientific language would be 

 perfected with the ages by regularly recurring periodical 

 revisions. It is inconceivable that mankind will continue much 

 longer to be satisfied with acquiring in a haphazard fashion a 

 cumbrously complex and exasperatingly obscure and confusing 

 language to serve as the principal medium of communication 

 with our fellows and chief means of communion with ourselves. 



