It is sufficiently obvious that Analogy should be sought for first, in the _Generals_ of any department under examination, and, subsequently, through them, in the _Particulars_. In respect to the two Domains now under special consideration, this relation is between the Fundamental Elements of Thought, including those called by the Philosophers the Categories of the Understanding, and the Fundamental Elements of Language. In pointing out the Correspondence subsisting between the Elements of these two Domains, I shall use, partly by way of condensation, and partly by copious extracts, the Elaborate Expositions contained in the yet unpublished text books of Universology. And, as what follows relating to this subject will consist, almost wholly, of this material, I do not deem it essential to encumber the page with numerous and unnecessary quotation marks. It is advisable to caution the Reader, however, that as my present purpose is explanation and illustration only, and not formal demonstration, what is about to be given will be mostly in the nature of mere statement, unaccompanied by any other evidence of its truthfulness than may be found in the self-supporting reasonableness of the statements themselves. * * * * * It was the basic and axiomatic proposition of Hegel's Philosophy, that the first discrimination of Thought and Being in any sphere is into two factors, a _Something_ and a _Nothing_;--that which constitutes the _main_ or _predominant_ element of the Conception or Creation, and that which we endeavor to exclude from contemplation or activity, but which, nevertheless, by virtue of the impossibility of _perfect_ or _absolute_ abstraction, inevitably becomes a _minor_ or _subordinate_ element in the Idea or the Act which may be engaging the attention. _Something_ and _Nothing_ are also averred to be _equal_ factors in the Constitution of Thoughts or Things, because both are alike indispensable to the cognition of either; because, in other words, it is only by the presence of the _Nothing_ as a _background_ or _contrasting_ element, that the _Something_ has an independent or cognizable existence. If there were no blank space, for instance, there could be no Moon, relatively, or so far as our ability to perceive it is concerned. For the Moon is, in this illustration, a _Something_ which is visible to us, and of which we have a knowledge, only by reason of the fact that it is surrounded by and contrasted with that which is _not_ Moon, and which, in reference to the particular aspect under consideration is, therefore, a _Nothing_; though it in turn may be a _Something_ or main object of attention in some other view or conception, where some other factor shall be the Nothing.