external utterance or
expression. Who can say how profoundly and intimately the underlying and
hitherto undiscovered Laws of Speech may be consociated with the basic
Principles _of all truth_ embedded in the Wisdom-Nature of God himself?
The old Massonites had a faith, derived from certain mystical utterances
of the Greek Philosophers, that whosoever should discover the right name
for anything, would have absolute power over that thing. The Wisdom of
Plato and the deeper Wisdom of Christ meet and are married to each
other in the conception of John when he makes the startling assertion
that the Logos, the Logic, the Law, the Word, is synonymous with God
himself.

The possibilities of the existence of such a language, divinely and
providentially prepared in the constitution of things, and awaiting
discovery, begins to be perceived, if the conception of the existence of
an absolutely universal analogy be permitted fairly to take possession
of the mind. Such an infinite scheme of analogy, rendering the same
principles alike applicable in all spheres, must itself, in turn, rest
upon a Divine Unity of Plan reigning throughout the Universe, the
execution of which Plan is the act or the continuity of the acts of
Creation. The Religious Intuition of the Race has persistently insisted
upon the existence of this Unity, to the conception of which the
scientific world is only now approximatingly and laboriously ascending.

If there be such Analogy in Nature furnishing an echo and an image in
every department of Being of all that exists in every other department
of Being, certainly that Analogy must be _most distinct_ and _clearly
discoverable as between the Elements, or the lowest and simplest
Constituents of Being in each Sphere_. The lowest and simplest elements
of Language are Oral Sounds, which in written Languages are represented
by Letters, and constitute the Alphabets of those Languages. The
Alphabets of Sound must be clearly distinguished from the mere
Letter-Alphabets by which the Sounds are variously represented. The
Sound-Alphabets (the Scales of Phonetic Elements) of any two Languages
differ only in the fact that one of the Languages may include a few
Sounds which are not heard in the other, or may omit a few which are.

The Mouth, the Larynx (a cartilaginous box at the top of the windpipe),
and the Nose--the compound organ of speech--constitute an instrument,
capable, like the accordeon, for instance, of a certain num