im to
produce that precious gem.

Whether this particular hint is of any value or not, one thing is
certain, that it is in the direction of Universal and Comparative
Science--the analogical echo of the parts of one Domain of Being with
the parts of another Domain and of all other Domains of Being; of the
phenomena of one Science with the phenomena of other Sciences; and
especially as among the Elements of each--that we must look for the next
grand advances in Scientific Discovery. The world urgently requires the
existence of a new class of scientific students who shall concern
themselves precisely with these questions of the relations and the
indications of unity between the different Sciences; not to displace,
but to transcend and to cooerdinate the labors of that noble Army of
Scientific Specialists, with which Humanity is now so extensively and so
happily provided.

The _Select_ Lingual Alphabet of Nature, as distinguished from the
_Crude_ Natural Alphabet above described, is then the expurgated scale
of sounds, say thirty-two; the sounds of usual occurrence in polished
languages; one half of the whole number; the residuum after rejecting an
equal number of obscure, unimportant, or barbarous sounds, of possible
production and of real occurrence in some of the cruder Languages, and
as crude elements even in the more refined Languages now extant. The two
sounds of _th_ in English, as in _th_igh and _th_y (the _theta_ of the
Greek), and the two shades of the _ch_-sound in German, as in na_ch_ and
i_ch_, are instances of crude sounds in refined Languages, for which
other Languages, more fastidious for Euphony, as French and Italian for
example, naturally substitute _t_, _d_, and _k_ (_c_). The obscure and
crude sounds would always retain, however (in respect to the idea of a
Universal Alphabet), a subordinate place and value, and should be
gathered and represented in a Supplementary Alphabet for special and
particular uses.

It has been the mistake of Phoneticians and Philologians, heretofore, to
recognize no difference in the relative importance of sounds. They have
sought, through every barbarous dialect, as well as every refined
tongue, and gathered by the drag-net of observation, every barbarous and
obscure as well as every polite sound which by any accident ever enters
into the constitution of speech. The clucks of Hottentot Tribes and the
whistle heard in some of the North American Languages have been reckoned