_roundness_; _u_, _closeness_; and _t_, _roof_ or _covering_; then _hut_ would signify ROUND-CLOSED-COVER, a proper description of a _hat_; and _Finger-hut_ would then mean AN-UPPER-BODY-BRANCH-PALM-CONTINUATION-ROUND-CLOSED-COVER, or _the round-closed-cover of a palm-continuation of a superior limb or branch of the body_. It will be at once perceived how, with such resources of signification at command, compounds like _Acanthopterygii_ to signify _thornfins_, _Malacopterygii Subbrachiati_, to signify _Under-arm soft fins_, or _Anthropomorphus Inorganismoidismus_, to signify _things in unorganized form, having a resemblance to man_, would soon come to be regarded as the lingual monsters which they really are. The difference between commencing the composition of words by the real elements of speech, represented by single letters, each charged with its own appropriate meaning, and conveying that meaning into every compound into which it should enter, from commencing the composition by assuming long words already formed in some existing language, as _Anthropos_ (Greek word for _man_), _Acanthos_ (Greek word for _spine_), _Keron_ (Greek word for _fin_ or _wing_), etc., as the first element of the new compounds, is infinite in its results upon the facility, copiousness, and expressiveness of the terminology evolved. It is like the difference of man working by the aid of the unlimited resources of tools and machinery and the knowledge of chemistry, on the one hand, and man working with his unaided _bare hands_, and in ignorance of the nature of the substances he employs, on the other hand. The scientific world has not hitherto known how to construct the lingual tools and instruments which are indispensable to its own rapidly augmenting and complicated operations; to analyze and apply the lingual materials at its command; and to simplify and unify the nomenclatures of all the sciences, in order to quicken a thousandfold the operation of all the mental faculties, in the perception and exact vocal indication of all the infinitely numerous close discriminations and broad generalizing analogies with which nature abounds. It is hardly necessary to say that the particular meanings assigned above to the single sounds in the analysis of the German word _Finger-hut_, are not assumed in any sense to be the real meanings of the vocal elements involved. The whole case is supposititious, and assumed merely to illustrate the unused possibilities of Language in the construction of significant words, and especially in the construction of scientific technicalities. To found a real Language of this kind, it would be necessary, first, to work up patiently to the true meanings of the Elementary Sounds of Human Speech, and then to the analogy of those meanings with the elements of universal being (the categories of the understanding, etc.), and finally of these again with the elements of each of the special Sciences.