Of the four or five hundred roots which remain, the insoluble residuum (so thought by Professor Mueller) of Language, after eliminating the immense mass of variable and soluble material, he says: 1. That 'they are _phonetic types_ produced by a power inherent in human nature;' 2. 'Man, in his primitive and perfect state, was not only endowed like the brute with the power of expressing his sensations by interjections, and his perceptions by onomatopoieia [mere imitation of sound]. He possessed _likewise_ the power of giving _more articulate_ expression to the _rational conceptions of his mind_.' The italics here are, again, my own, introduced for more emphasis and more ready reference to the central thought of the writer. 3. 'That faculty was not of his own making. It was an instinct, an instinct of the mind, as irresistible as any other instinct. So far as language is the production of that instinct, it belongs to the realm of nature. Man loses his instincts as he ceases to want them. His senses become fainter when, as in the case of scent, they become useless. Thus the creative faculty which gave to each conception, as it thrilled for the first time through the brain, a phonetic expression, became extinct when its object was fulfilled.' 4. 'The number of these _phonetic types_ [root-syllables] must have been almost infinite in the beginning, and it was only through the same process of _natural elimination_ which we observed in the early history of words, that clusters of roots more or less synonymous, were gradually reduced to one definite type.' Professor Mueller, in stopping with root-syllables (to the number of four or five hundred), as the _least_ or ultimate elements to which Language can be reduced, has, naturally enough, and along with all Comparative Philologists hitherto, committed the error of _insufficient analysis_; an error of precisely the same kind which the founders of Syllabic Alphabets have committed, as compared with the work of Cadmus, or any founder of a veritable alphabet. The true and radical analysis carries us back in both cases to the _Primitive Individual Sounds_, the Vowels and Consonants of which Language is composed.