Adhering, however, to the Concrete Domain, and seeking our analogies there, oral speech, a Concrete Thing, does not directly correspond with Nature, an Abstract Conception, but with The World, a concrete thing; nor does Music, a Concrete Thing, correspond with Science, an Abstract Conception, but with Man (the Mind-being, Knowledge-being, the Science-being), a concrete thing; nor, again, does Song, a Concrete Thing, correspond with Art, an Abstract Conception, but with Human Product or Doing, a concrete thing. Song is again but the lowest and simple expression for that combination of Music and Oral Expression, aided by Action, to which the Italians, full of instinct for Art, have given the name OPERA, THE WORK _par excellence_, the culmination of Art in Movement and Sound. This word, from the Latin, _opus, operari_, work, to work, connects in idea with the Greek [Greek: poiheo], and the whole with Action and Art. This last relationship accounts beautifully for the fact that the words _poetry_, _poesy_, and _poet_ should be derived from the Greek word [Greek: poiheo], which signifies simply TO DO. The first threefold division of Language and of The Universe, both brought into a parallelism in the Concrete--the three ascending Stories of each Edifice, so to speak, when compared with each other--appear then as shown in the table below: _Language._ _The Universe._ 3. SONG. 3. HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT. 2. MUSIC. 2. MAN. 1. ORAL SPEECH. 1. THE WORLD. Oral Speech is the agglomerism of Sound, conceived of as roundish or _in the lump_, as an undifferentiated Oneness or mass; and, when wholly unarticulated, it is the _Bawl_, a mere orthographical variation of _Ball_; that is to say, it is, to the imagination, Globe-shaped, or _World_-shaped. It is the concrete or massive world of Language or Speech. Music is the _Strain_ or the Abstractism of Sound. _To strain_ means TO DRAW. _Ab-stract_ is from the Latin _ab_, FROM, and _strahere_, TO DRAW. The idea is not here _roundish_, as in the other case, but _elongate_; sound made into a _strain_, a _cord_, or a _string_, equivalent to a _line_, which is the subject of _measure_-ment, by _notes_ (or points) and _intervals_. The line, with its _twoness_ of determination and extremity, has a relation to the number TWO, like that which the _ball_ or _globe_ has to the number ONE. The _line_ is at the same time the type of The Abstract, the Domain of Science, and hence of Science, and of _Knowledge_, and again, in the concrete, of _Man_, the _Knowledge-being_. The _ball_ (bawl) is at the same time the type of The Concrete (_con_, WITH, _crescere_, TO GROW; THE GROWN TOGETHER, or AGGLOMERATE-world), and hence of Nature, and again _in_ The Concrete, of The World, as contrasted with Man.