(Kroo-o).

Of these verbal forms only two occur in any of the well-known
Southwestern Languages of Europe, namely, _Creo_, I CREATE, of the
Latin, Italian, etc., and _Crio_, I REAR, of the Spanish. The other
forms are entirely unused. Of any other simple series of Euphonic
combinations, such as Phonetic art can readily construct, there is the
same wasteful neglect, and, in consequence of this total failure of the
scientific world to extract these treasures of Phonic wealth lying
directly beneath their feet, they are driven to such desperate devices
as that of naming the two best-known and most familiar order of fishes,
those usually found on our breakfast tables, _Acanthopterygii
Abdominales_, and _Malacopterygii Subbrachiati_; and the common and
beautiful bird called bobolink is _Dolichonyx Orixyvora_. For the same
reason--the entire absence of any economical and systematized use of our
phonetic materials by the scientific world--the writer found himself,
recently, in attempting certain generalizations of the domain of
science, stranded almost at the commencement, upon such verbal shoals as
_Anthropomorphus Inorganismoidismus_; and the subsequent steps in the
mere naming of discriminations simple enough in themselves, became
wholly impossible. The urgent necessity existing, therefore, for the
radical intervention of Science in the discovery of true principles
applicable to the construction of its own tools and instruments, can
hardly be denied or questioned.

The immense condensation of meaning, and the consequent compactness and
copiousness of which a Language based on a meaning inherently contained
by analogy in the simplest elements of sound would be susceptible, would
give to such a Language advantages as the instrument of thought and
communication, which are but very partially illustrated in the
superiority of printing by movable types over manuscript, for the rapid
multiplication of books.

In the _compound words_ of existing Languages each root-word of the
combination has a distinct meaning, and the joint meaning of the parts
so united is the description or definition of the new idea; thus in
German, _Finger_ is FINGER, and _Hut_ is HAT, and _Finger-hut_
(FINGER-HAT) is a _thimble_; _Hand_ is HAND, _Schue_ is SHOE, and
_Hand-schue_ is _a glove_, etc. So in English, _Wheel-barrow_,
_Thunder-storm_, etc. The admirable expressiveness of such terms, and
the great superiority in this respect of Languages like the