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 Sanscrit, Greek, German, etc., in which such self-defining combinations are readily formed, over Spanish, Italian, French, and other derivative languages, the genius of which resists combination, is immediately perceived and acknowledged. But if we analyze any one of these compound words, _Finger-hut_, for instance, we shall perceive that while each of the so-called elements of combination, _Finger_ and _Hut_, has a distinct meaning, which enters into the more specific meaning of the compound, yet they are not, in any true sense, elements, or, in other words, that they are not the ultimate elements of the compound words. _Finger_ is itself constituted, in the first instance, of two syllables, _Fing_ and _er_, which, in accordance with the same principle upon which the compound word _Finger-hut_ is organized, should describe the thing signified, as would be the case if _Fing_ meant HAND, and _er_ meant CONTINUATION. _Finger_ would then mean HAND-CONTINUATION, and _Finger-hut_ (_thimble_) would then be a HAND-CONTINUATION-HAT. But, again, _Fing_ consists of three elementary sounds, _f-i-ng_, _er_ of two, _e-r_, and _hut_ of three, _h-u-t_. Suppose now that the primary sound _f_ had been scientifically discovered to be correspondential throughout all the realms of Nature and of Thought with _Superiority_, _High-position_, or _Upperness_; _i_ with _centrality_, or _main body_, and _ng_ with _member_ or _branch_; the syllable _Fing_ would then signify UPPER-BODY-BRANCH, a very proper description of _the arm_. Suppose that _e_ signified, in the same way, _flat, palm-like ideas and things generally_ and that _r_ alone signified _continuation_; then _er_ would signify PALM-CONTINUATION, and _Finger_ would signify an UPPER-BODYBRANCH-PALM-CONTINUATION, or, in other words, a _Palm-continuation of an upper-body-branch_, and would so be completely _descriptive of_, at the same time that it would _denote_, a Finger. Suppose, again, that _h_ signified inherently _rotundity_ or