nish a rallying point of unity between them all. It would ally them
to itself, not by the destruction of their several individualities, but
by developing the genius of each to the utmost. It would enrich them
all, by serving as the common interpreter between them, until each would
attain something of the powers of all, or at least the full capacity for
availing itself of the aid of all others, and chiefly of the central
tongue, in all those respects in which in consequence of its own special
character it should remain individually defective. The new Scientific
and Central Language might thus plant itself in the midst of the
Languages; gradually assimilate them to itself; drawing at the same time
an augmentation of its own materials from them, until they would become
mere idioms of it, and finally, perhaps, in a more remote future,
disappear altogether as distinct forms of speech, and be blended into
harmony in the bosom of the central tongue.

The resources of Language for the formation of new words, by the
possible euphonic combination of elementary sounds, is as nearly
infinite as any particular series of combinations usually called
infinite; all such series having their limitations, as in the case of
the different orders of the Infinite in the calculus which are limited
by the fact that there are different orders. Yet, notwithstanding that
this inexhaustible fountain of Phonetic wealth exists directly at hand,
none of these resources have ever been utilized by any scientific
arrangement and advice. Only so many verbal forms as happen to have
occurred in any given language, developed by the chance method, in the
Greek, for instance, are chosen as a basis, and employed as elements for
the new verbal formatives now coming into use with such astonishing
rapidity in all the sciences. For instance, let us take the consonant
combination _kr_ (or _cr_), and add the following series of vowels: _i_
(pronounced _ee_), _e_ (pronounced _a_), _a_ (pronounced _ah_), _o_
(pronounced _aw_), _u_ (pronounced _uh_), _o_ (pronounced _o_), and _u_
(pronounced _oo_); and we construct the following series of euphonic
triliteral roots:

Kri (Kree)

Kre (Kra or Kray)

Kra (Krah)

Kr_o_ (Kraw)

Kr_u_ (Kruh)

Kro (Kro)

Kru (Kroo).

Let us now add the termination _o_, and we have the following list of
formatives:

Kri-o (Kree-o)

Kre-o (Kra-o)

Kra-o (Krah-o)

Kr_o_-o (Kraw-o)

Kr_u_-o (Kr_uh_-o)

Kro-o (Kro-o)

Kru-o