ly
scientific principles to the Structure of Language is subject to
limitation. Even mathematics, theoretically the most unlimited of the
existing Sciences, is practically limited very soon by the complexity of
the questions involved in the higher degrees of equations. In the same
manner, while it may be possible to construct a Scientific Language
adequate to all the wants of Language, in which exactness is involved;
that is to say, capable of classifying and naming every object and idea
in the Universe which is itself capable of exact classification and
definition, still there remains an immense sphere, an equal half, it may
be said, of the Universe of objects and conceptions, which have not that
susceptibility; which are, in other words, so complex, so idiosyncratic,
or so vague in their nature, that the best guide for the formation of an
appropriate word for their expression is not Intellect or Reflection,
but that very Instinct which has presided over the formation of such
Languages as we now have. We may accurately define a triangle or a cube,
and might readily bring them within the range of a Universal Language
scientifically constructed; but who would venture to attempt by any
verbal contrivance to denote the exact elements of thought and feeling
which enter into the meaning of the verbs _to screech_ or _to twinge_?

There is, therefore, ample scope and a peremptory demand for both
methods of lingual development. The New Scientific Language herein
suggested would be universal within the limit within which Science
itself is universal. But there is another sphere within which Science,
born of the Intellect, has only a subordinate sway, and in which
instinct, or that faculty which, in the higher aspect of it, we
denominate Intuition, is supreme. This faculty has operated as instinct
in the first stage of the growth of Language, the Natural or
Instinctual; it should now give place to the Intellect, in the second
stage, the Scientific; after which it should regain its ascendency as
Intuition, in the final finish and perfectionment of the Integral Speech
of Mankind, the Artistic.

Such a Language would be, to all other Languages, precisely what a
unitary Science would be to all the special Sciences; and we have seen
how it might happen that the same discovery should furnish both the
Language and the Science. Without rudely displacing any existing
Language, it would, besides filling its own central sphere of uses,
fur